Dealing with Difficult Decisions

The stakeholder just declared, "that step is too difficult, let's skip it and move on."

Should the stakeholder conventional wisdom be accepted as "truth" or should the BA dare risk ridicule pursuing an "impossible" process? There is the chance of missed requirements as well as missed opportunity but there is also the perception of wasting project time and money chasing the unfeasible.

What should a Business Analyst do?

This presentation provides the Business Analyst with one process for dealing with difficult decisions by providing:

 
The results demonstrate due diligence on the part of the BA, as well as providing defensible rationale for the decision for current and future stakeholders.
 
 
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
 

Dagmar Cole is a highly experienced IT professional who is consistently recognized for her ability to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency in identifying strategic opportunities by aligning business processes and IT to realize cost savings and competitive advantages. She also has extensive training, certification, and experience in conflict resolution. Dagmar is viewed as a "out of the box" thinker and troubleshooter for intricate projects. She is a sought-after facilitator due to her ability to broker successful "win-win" solutions under pressure with difficult teams as well as her ability to deal with the "C" Suite level executives. She is a frequent speaker in the Dallas - Fort Worth area and has presented at the IIBA BBC Conferences for 2015, 2016,  2017 and 2018.   She contributes monthly to the BR Community Practitioner's Corner as well as for Data Management University.

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All levels of experience are invited to learn and to contribute to the discussion.  
Admission is free to IIBA Dallas Chapter members ($30 per year to join). Non-members will be asked to pay $10 at the door.