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Rolls-Royce plc are pleased to be hosting this IIBA UK Midlands Branch Event at their Learning & Career Development Centre in Derby.

Before the event there will be a FREE tour of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Exhibition, allocated on a first come first served basis (limited to the first 40 attendees). Priority will be given to external visitors (ie. non Rolls-Royce staff and contractors). 

17:30               Registration for the Heritage Trust Exhibition Tour
17:45 -18:15    Heritage Trust Exhibition Tour
18:00              General event registration opens
18:30              Welcome - Paul Rushton & Nick Whittaker, Rolls-Royce
18:45              Talk 1: Two Capabilities for High Performance Business Analysts  - Andy Wilkins
19:30              Talk 2: Agile in a Nutshell - Portia Tung - Independent
20:15              Closing messages

Afterwards there will be networking and a buffet. 

The event is FREE of charge for both IIBA UK Chapter members and non members. Click here to Register

Map & directions to the venue can be found here 

*Please note that the nearest post code to the Learning & Career Development Centre is DE24 9BD*

Two Capabilities for High Performance Business Analysts: Facilitative Leadership and Creative Problem Solving - Andy Wilkins

In the current business analyst literature, there are many references to the need for business analysts to evolve, change, and transform both themselves and the profession – for example, to become strategic leaders of change; to provide exceptional requirements management; to facilitate divisional communications, joint application design sessions, and process mapping workshops; to be able to be part of high performing teams; an build relationships using emotional intelligence. In short, to be able to master a unique combination of hard and soft skills.

This session will aim to share some further thoughts and ideas to the wisdom that already exists in the business analysts community related to Facilitative Leadership and Creative Problem Solving – two capabilities that will help prepare business analysts to achieve these ambitions.

Creative Problem Solving is a tried and test 50 year old method based on people’s natural problem solving style and which integrates easily as a complement to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge as well as other methods such as Lean and Six Sigma.

But as a client recently said to us: “Whilst, Creative Problem Solving, Lean, and Six Sigma are all excellent methods, they are no good if you can't bring people with you, create a productive environment, and make it work in practice. This is what Facilitative Leadership provides.”

About the Speaker

Andy Wilkins has more than 20 years' experience helping people, teams and organizations significantly improve their performance. He has delivered more than 450 programs, workshops and coaching sessions for international companies in 11 countries.

In 1997, Andy co founded Perspectiv, a research, consulting and training company specializing in the use of creative problem solving, strategy, leadership, and team development methodologies to help change and growth. Before that, he worked for 16 years at international IT companies as director of innovation and change, business unit managing director and director of strategy and marketing.

Andy has many years' experience as a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School in London on various MBA and MSc courses on innovation and management. He is currently working with the Business School on the development, launch and delivery of the new master's program in Creativity, Innovation and Leadership, of which Andy is also responsible for developing and running the Creative Problem Solving and Leadership module. Andy is researching the leadership approach necessary for dealing with “wicked problems” to help organizations better understand how to get the most from their methods. Perspectiv have a sister company in the USA called ThinkFirstServe.

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Agile in a Nutshell - Portia Tung

Agile is now widely recognised as a project delivery and general working approach with a proven track record of delivering more business value faster through higher quality deliverables in comparison with traditional methodologies. Join us in an introductory interactive session to the core concepts of Agile and identify ways in which you can try out Agile concepts to the way you work.
 
About the speaker
 
Portia Tung specialises in Agile adoption and organisational change as a Consultant-Coach. She strives to build effective and meaningful teams by pragmatically applying Lean and Agile Values, Principles and Practices.

Portia is a popular international speaker at Agile conferences, delivering presentations and facilitating interactive sessions in both English and French. She is also well-known in the Agile community for her active contribution to a number of learning games under the Creative Commons License.

Her blog: www.selfishprogramming.org
Her projects: www.agilefairytales.org and www.agilecoach.net
Her twitter: @portiatung