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Ian Spence – Chief Scientist at the Ivar Jacobson Institute (Ivar created UML and Use Cases) talks about the facts and fictions of agile business analysis 

User-Centred Design where do Business Analysts fit in?  

Nick de Voil director of De Voil Consulting takes a look at the ideas and techniques that business analysts can learn from practitioners of User-Centred Design.   

The meeting finishes at 8.15pm when there will be a buffet and opportunity for a chat  

Ian Spence Title: Agile Requirements Management: Myths and Reality - The facts and fictions of agile business analysis.

Abstract: Agile software development is one of the hottest topics in software development at the moment but what does it really mean for Business Analysts and requirements management? One of the main problems we face in becoming agile is the number of myths and urban legends have grown up around agile development, myths such as that with agile there are no requirements, no documentation and no unhappiness.  Does becoming agile really mean that we will all have to become Product Owners and write User Stories? Is it really true that teams of business analysts can be replaced by on-site customers? Will projects really produce software without any requirements at all? In this presentation Ian Spence Chief Scientist at Ivar Jacobson International, certified Scrum Master, and author of leading books on Use-Case Modeling and Managing Iterative Software Development will explore these and other myths, and uncover the truth about what happens to requirements on agile projects.  

Nick de Voil Title: User-Centred Design where do Business Analysts fit in?

Abstract: One sign of a maturing discipline is that sub-disciplines are constantly emerging and crystallizing in their own right. As these new disciplines acquire their own distinctive terminology and literature, there is a danger that areas of legitimate overlap with related sub-disciplines may become obscured, and the potential for cross-fertilisation of ideas may be ignored, to the detriment of the overall discipline's progress. This presentation will argue that this scenario has to some extent occurred with business analysis and related fields. In particular, we will look at the ideas and techniques that business analysts can learn from practitioners of User-Centred Design, which is more commonly associated with User Experience Design and Human-Computer Interface Design. Topics will include:

• Participatory Design
• Ethnography
• Contextual Design

Nick de Voil is a certified management consultant with over 20 years experience. He is the founder and managing director of De Voil Consulting, a UK-based e-business consultancy. The firm helps organizations automate their business processes using the Internet, with a particular focus on the possibilities offered by Web-based collaboration tools. Nick s work as a business analyst in the financial and public sectors has encompassed many areas including requirements elicitation, requirements definition, systems analysis, systems evaluation and systems testing. He has delivered projects for organizations including the British Library, BT, Cambridge University, Channel 4, Sky Television, and UBS. His current research interests centre on the intersection of requirements engineering, project management and human-computer interaction. 

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