IIBA Houston July 14, 2015

If You Build It, Will They Use It? Leveraging Business Objectives To Deliver Successful Projects

 Come at 5:30 to spend time meeting and getting to know your fellow BAs.

Presentation Details

Business Objectives are the measurable results a business desires to achieve when executing a project. They can be used to ensure that everything developed in the project contributes to the desired measurable business value. This discusssion will heolp Business Analysts learn to develop good business objectives, to derive requirements from them, and how to apply them to control project scope.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand how Business Objectives are vital to businesses
2. Understand how to elicit and write good Business Objectives
3. Understand how to use Business Objectives to assess the validity and need for product features, and identify unnecessary scope.

Presenter

Geraldine Mongold is a Senior Product Manager at Seilevel, a professional services company whose mission is to redefine the way software requirements are developed.

She is a PMP who, over the span of her career, has been a soldier, software developer, teacher, marketing analyst, project manager, business analyst, and consultant.

As a consultant at Seilevel, she helps customers create software project requirements that meet their business objectives while reducing project scope and cost.

A former resident of McLoud, Oklahoma, Geraldine now hangs her hat in south Austin, where she spends her free time trying to grow a garden in solid limestone.