CONSULTANT | SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP
Jenny Saunders
Jenny is a consultant with over 35 years’ experience in I.T. She started her career as a software developer in the UK and subsequently moved into Business Analysis, Project Management and leadership roles.
In 2005 she moved to New Zealand with her husband, after travelling around India and Asia for 6 months; finally settling in New Zealand.
Jenny now teaches and provides consultancy and coaching in the Business Analysis space. She strongly believes that Great Business Analysts can save their organizations’ a fortune when they are engaged at the right time, trusted and empowered to their job.
Presentation: Starting our initiatives the right way using engaging visual models
Many organizations start work on initiatives without understanding the real problem that they are trying to solve. Stakeholders are often forgotten or ignored and “dumped” with a solution when it is deployed into production. This leads to frustration, resistance, unfulfilled benefits and often rework.
This session will focus on a simple “Problem Statement Canvas” and uncover an approach that will enable you to successfully achieve the following:
- Quickly uncover and visualise the real problem (s)
- Understand the impact of each problem
- Identify affected stakeholders
- Engage your stakeholders, showing them WIIFT (What’s in it for them)
- Identify a ‘high level’ solution that is fit for purpose
- Utilise simple, yet powerful, visual models to show the big picture
- Build trust by bringing your stakeholders on the journey
- Create Change agents along the way
This approach will enable you to connect with your stakeholders in order to ensure that you deliver solutions that really solve the current problem(s) in a collaborative, transparent and engaging way.
Come along and decide for yourself if these techniques could help you become a better Business Analyst.