TriBADD 2023 (Triangle Business Analysis Development Day)
Presented by Raleigh, Boston, Hartford, Palmetto Chapters and SoftEd

Theme: Conquering the Mountain

 

May 18, 2023 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern

 

Time
12:30 – 1:00 PM	Check in, test your connection, have some conversations.
1:00-1:10 PM	Welcome / Introduction – Olivia Hampton, President IIBA Palmetto Chapter
1:10-1:40 PM	Opening Session - Katherine Gilliland Title: The Importance of Character
1:40-1:50pm	Break
1:50-2:35 pm	Keynote speaker – Keith Ellis Title: Becoming Nimble: The Business Analysis Perspective
2:35-3:20pm	Track 1: On the hike. Mindy Bohannon Title: Do you want to meet Emily in Paris or Escape from New York? Plan your Roadmap with key Prioritization.	Track 2: At the summit. Felicia Joyner Title: How to Train Your Business Data Analyst
3:20-3:30pm	Break
3:30-4:15 pm	Track 1: On the hike. Rita Hewell Title:  You CAN get there from here!	Track 2: At the summit. Alison Starker Title: Working with People 101: Stakeholder Engagement
4:15-4:45pm	Closing Session: - Katherine Gilliland Title:  Putting Character into Practice
4:45-5:00 pm	Raffle/Closing -- Tajoura Davis, President IIBA Greater Boston Chapter

 

Speakers and Abstracts

 

Katherine Gilliland

Opening & Closing Sessions

Email: 1kgilliland@gmail.com

Job Title:

Company: Katherine Gilliland Coaching and Consulting

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinegilliland/

Website: www.katherinegilliland.com
Speaker Bio: Katherine Gilliland, PCC draws on over 20 years’ experience as a leadership coach, management consultant, facilitator, and HR executive to help individuals and teams thrive. 

 

Throughout her career, Katherine has focused on improving business performance through individuals’ performance. She believes that clear vision, aspirational goals, and courageous communication in a trusting environment helps people be - and achieve – their best. Moving into coaching was a natural progression; now, she helps individuals identify and remove barriers to reaching their full potential. Katherine is an ICF-credentialed coach, team coach, and facilitator who has worked with individuals and groups spanning the globe, primarily in technology, healthcare, higher education, and non-profit industries. 

 

Katherine partners with her clients for them to find their own leadership voice and increase their positive influence. Drawing on her corporate experience, she understands the daily challenges leaders face – both in their environment and from within themselves. With kind accountability, grounded presence, and a dash of humor, Katherine challenges her clients to re-evaluate their perceptions, reframe their perspectives, and realign their actions with what is most important. As a result, her clients achieve increased awareness, greater clarity, and renewed commitment to action… all leading to improved performance.

 

Opening Session Presentation Title:  The Importance of Character

 

Opening Session Description of the Presentation:

If you're going to Conquer the Mountain, being intelligent, competent, and motivated isn't enough. You also need character. In this session, we'll explore what character is and how to develop it so that you have positive influence with others... and so you can reach the heights you desire!

 

Closing Session Presentation Title: Putting Character into Practice

 

Closing Session Description of the Presentation:
In this session, we will build on the opening session to explore how we can put character into practice to increase positive influence with others. When you define leadership as having influence with others, we are all leaders in some way – and our day-to-day choices define how effective we are.

Keynote Speaker: Keith Ellis

Job Title: Chief Engagement & Growth Officer

Company: IIBA

LinkedIn URL:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-ellis-55b95b4/

Email:   keith.ellis@iiba.org

 

Speaker Bio:

Keith serves as Chief Growth and Engagement Officer for IIBA. He is responsible for leading IIBA’s global growth strategy, including strategic partnerships, IIBA’s 600 corporate, academic and education program partners, its 120 chapters in 40 countries around the world, 1300 volunteers, corporate research and focus on member engagement. Keith has held roles as CEO, COO, board member, investor and mentor to various technology companies. As a business analysis professional, Keith co-founded and sold a business analysis company, leading large projects with over 300 stakeholders.

 

Presentation Title: 

Becoming Nimble: The Business Analysis Perspective

 

Description of the presentation:

The pace of change for business is crushing and traditional approaches to change simply can’t keep up. For the business analysis profession, the question is… what do we do about this?  At the intersection of business analysis and business agility there are eight practices that organizations have used to become best in class in dimensions like innovation and operational efficiency, while at the same time becoming better places to work. Keith Ellis, IIBA’s Chief Engagement & Growth Officer, will unveil a host of data from an intensive IIBA study to talk about how business analysis is essential in a world that demands being nimble.

 

Session Objectives:

 

• Define: What is a ‘nimble organization’?

• Actionable Techniques: How do organizations use these eight practices to drive organizational success?

• Measure: What is the impact and role of business analysis professionals in nimble organizations?

 

 

Track 1: On the hike. 

Session Speaker: Mindy Bohannon

 

Email: mindy.bohannon@excella.com

Job Title: Agile Business Analyst

Company: Excella

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindybohannon/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mindybo93

 

Bio:

Mindy thrives as an Agile Business Analyst. She relishes solving business problems, developing solutions that drive the business forward, and relating to others with collaboration, trust, and humanity. Mindy began her career journey as a database developer; and is now a BA and Scrum Master, working on application modernization projects. She’s spoken on agile, analyst, and professional development topics at many local and national conferences over the years. Equally, she encourages others to share their knowledge as the President of her local IIBA DC chapter.

 

Presentation Title: 

Do you want to meet Emily in Paris or Escape from New York? Plan your Roadmap with key Prioritization Techniques

 

Description of the presentation:

You’re on a road trip, just you, and 2 cities to visit – easy peasy to plan the route. Now add 2 friends, your parents, and 2 kids in the car and each person wanting to go somewhere different - how does the road map get prioritized? We find ways to plan when there are multiple decision makers involved in creating the project’s development path with many swimlanes of features. There are different techniques to prioritize that we can use alone, and many times in conjunction together. This session will explore what a roadmap is, people involved in creating it, and different ways to prioritize and issues that people find when doing this work. 

 

Recent speaking history:

I've spoken at RTP IIBA before, many BA World conferences and IIBA Chapters over the year. 

 

URLs of previous presentations

https://www.slideshare.net/MindyBohannon/presentations

 

 

Track 2: At the summit.

Session Speaker: Felicia Joyner

 

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

Company: Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC

LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/feliciajoyner/

Email: felicia.joyner@gmail.com

 

Speaker Bio:

Felicia Joyner is a visionary Senior Business Analyst and Data Analyst at Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina who designs solutions that meet critical business needs. She is skilled in planning, coordinating, and administering systems development projects and advancing projects during all SDLC phases and agile sprints.

 

Felicia has extensive experience with developing creative approaches to meeting challenges of software validation, resource management, measurement, and development. During her time as Product Manager for Deloitte, Felicia advocated for improving the efficiency and effectiveness with which the company made data-driven decisions. At IQVIA she designed, developed, and deployed business intelligence solutions, providing data for interactive Tableau dashboards. She also sourced data from 26 internal enterprise datasets, audited for accuracy and consistency, implemented business rules, and collected requirements for reporting needs directly from end-users. 

 

Felicia’s success in leading others and facilitating cross-functional teams has aided her in both her professional work and her tenure as President of the Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA). She has been involved with the board since 2015, holding positions as Secretary and Treasurer.

 

Presentation Title: How to Train Your Business Data Analyst

 

Description of the presentation:
Join me as we attack the twin dragons, Fear and Valor! I’ll describe my training earning my Certified Business Data Analyst (CBDA). We will discuss requirements, process and cost. We’ll review the CBDA attributes, Knowledge Areas, Tasks and Techniques. We’ll discuss your experiences and mine. We’ll discuss how to prepare for the exam and what happens on exam day. At the end of the class, you will leave with information and inspiration for you to attack you twin dragons, Fear and Valor and take steps to attain your goals.

 

Recent speaking history

How to Train your Business Data Analyst for the Data Scientista Society

Track 1: On the hike.

 

Session Speaker: Rita Hewell

 

Job Title: Analytics Operations Lead and Doer of Lots of Things

Company: Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC

LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rita-hewell-bizzell-1761472/

Email: rhewell@aol.com

 

Speaker Bio:

Rita brings to the table a unique blend of leadership/management, project management, system and business analysis, business relationship building, technical writing/communication, facilitation, training, and software development/software testing experiences. Whew – that’s a lot of stuff!  Her career path mirrors her presentation topic – what a winding (and adventuresome) road it has been.

 

Presentation Title:

You CAN get there from here!

 

Description of the presentation:
Have you ever stopped at some point in your career and wondered, “How in the world did I get here?”

This journey toward business analysis is often filled with twists and turns, ups and downs. This might be a new journey for you. You may have stumbled on this journey from another path – never thinking that business analysis was your destination. You may have been on this path for a while now but are looking up and wondering where “here” is. You may be contemplating where your next “here” is going to be. You may be afraid that you can’t get “there” from “here.”

On any journey, it’s best to have good traveling companions who can help you through the muddy patches, pool resources, ensure your compass is working, and share stories at the end of the day.

During this session, let’s discuss “here” and “there” and all points in between. We may find that it’s not the question of “How did I get here?” but “Do I have the right things in my backpack?”

Recent Speaking History:

• True Blue Toastmasters

• Facilitator for Blue Cross NC new hire orientation

 

 

Track 2: At the summit

Session Speaker: Allison Straker

 

Job Title: Advisory Director

Company: Info-Tech Research Group

LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonstraker/

Email: astraker@infotech.com

 

Speaker Bio:

 

Allison enjoys enabling people and business to support changes and opportunities.  With an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Toronto, she is passionate about how users experience technology in the world.  Allison has two decades of experience aligning business and IT through user experience, business analysis, consulting, and relationship management roles.  

 

Allison is an advisory board member on Toronto’s ProjectWorld*BusinessAnalystWorld conferences, an active member of the Toronto chapter of the WIT Network and mentors young professionals through her alma mater and through BPTN.

 

Presentation Title:

Working with People 101: Stakeholder Engagement

 

Description of the presentation:
How many times have you worked on an initiative and missed requirements because you didn’t realise that there was a stakeholder you needed to talk to?  Identifying them, managing them, and gaining their trust are all critical to Business Analysts.

Discover how you can engage your stakeholders effectively to achieve results.

 

 

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CONFERENCE DETAILS & NOTES

• The Conference qualifies for IIBA® CDUs for your current IIBA certification, IIBA PD Hours to obtain the ECBA™ certificate, and PMI® PDUs for PMI certifications. If you attend the entire conference, you may claim 4 CDUs/PD Hours/PDUs.

• The TriBADD conference will be using the Zoom Meetings service. Conference management reserves the right to manage attendance, noise on the line, or remove any unauthorized persons from sessions.

• Conference attendees are muted throughout the conference. Please remain muted throughout the conference to reduce noise on the line. You may ask questions though the chat box, the session moderator will relay your question to the presenter.

• You may, but certainly do not have to, have your camera on during the sessions; whatever makes you comfortable. Presenters do like to see their audience. 

• Attendee interaction is highly encouraged through the chat box. To chat privately with another attendee, change the ‘To:’ in the chat box to the person to which you wish to chat. The chat box will note that your message was sent “Privately” to that person. You may pass your digital profile via the chat box. Keep all chats respectful and keep all language professional and courteous. Conference management reserves the right to remove a participant that does not conduct themselves in a professional and courteous manner.

• Sponsor representatives are present and will be glad to answer questions concerning their company’s products and services for attendees. Please feel free to chat privately with them.

• Many prizes and sponsor giveaways will be awarded at the end of the conference.  Yu must be in attendance to win a prize.

• Attendees will receive a follow-up email within 10 business days with CDU/PD Hours/PDU information and links to presentation slides.