| Career Center on the National IIBA website | Look for a job or post your resume at the new IIBA Career Center. You must be a member of the National IIBA to access this site. Employeers may post open positions as well as search resumes. | | Blueprint delivers the industry's leading requirements suite specifically designed for the Business Analys. Blueprint also offers real-time and on-demand webinars, and white papers. | 
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Visit Our Sponsor | | Dear Peter, Our January Chapter meeting saw well over 80 attendees; our best attendance ever. We have a great line up this year - see Save the Date below to review and mark your calendars for events. We have access to various venues throughout New Jersey and would like your input as to where we should hold meetings. Please take 30 seconds to complete our Location Survey The Board thanks everyone for their encouragement as we continue to grow the New Jersey Chapter of the IIBA. | | | Establishing an Enterprise BA Practice NJ IIBA Chapter Meeting February 18, 2010 The role of the business analyst is an important one for any organization. Yet, few companies use their BAs effectively. UPS recently instituted an enterprise-wide standard practice and training program for its business analysts in support of an initiative to create better requirements across its software-development projects. This presentation will focus on the importance and benefits of establishing an enterprise-wide BA practice that applies consistent processes across all application teams - the same tools, methodologies, and best practices Tom Ryder is the Business Analysis Practice Project Leader at UPS Information Services and is responsible for implementing the Business Analysis Practice initiative at UPS. Tom is also responsible for ensuring the success of the UPS Business Analysis Training Program, establishing standard processes, and metrics for overall improvement in business analyst work products. Tom has been with UPS 17 years with over 12 years in the practice of business analysis. Tom has a Bachelor of Science and Finance from St. John's University, and an M.S. in Management Information Systems from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Tom is a member of the IIBA and serves on the IIBA's Competency Model committee.
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- BABOK Chapter 4 Overview 6:00 - 6:15
- Presentation and Wrap Up 6:15 - 7:30
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| Project Summit and BA World Philadelphia April 19 - 22, 2010 The wonderful thing about Project Summit and BA World is that you will meet people who love to talk about projects; whether it's from the point of view of a project manager or a business analyst. One particular Symposium Session caught my eye - Engaged or Married: What's the Right Level of Commitment Between PMs and BAs to Find Lasting Project Happiness? For those who are engaged, much of your time together is all smiles and love, you can't get enough of each other. For those like me who have been married a while we look back and have fond memories of the engagement period, then our thoughts turn to making the marriage work; the balance between family, work, and friends. Marriage is hard work, especially if you want to make it succeed. So my conclusion is that marriage is a type of 'project' and both parties have requirements and expectations. We have to understand each other's requirements and we have to project manage the marriage relationship to make it successful. One spouse is committed to making the other spouse successful, happy and willing to stay in the marriage and vice versa. Conflicts arise which could destroy the marriage unless they are worked out. Do project managers and business analysts interact in similar ways? Since I've been married much longer (34 years) than I was engaged (3 months), my bet is that PMs and BAs have to act like married couples. This should be an interesting panel discussion and I'm sure there will be a lot of audience interaction. See you in Philly in April! Linda Fitzgerad, CBAP, PMP VP Communication NJ IIBA Chapter | Join the NJ IIBA Chapter Linked In Group Whether you're a member of Linked In or not, you may be interested in joining the newly formed Linked In Group: New Jersey IIBA Chapter. As a 'social network' Linked In has been providing networking opportunities for many years. To join the NJ IIBA Group, click on Linked In and join our newly formed group and start sharing your thoughts, ideas, opportunities, and stories. | Your $25 Membership Goes a Long Way - Pays for your attendance at 9 monthly meetings
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Chapter dues are $25 per year (Jan - Dec.) You can use PayPal to pay your dues. | | | | | Save the Date! March 18, 2010: Business Arthitecture's Role within Enterprise Architecture (UPS Morristown) presented by Terry Merriman April 15, 2010: Decision Behaviors for the Business Analyst: Increasing Your Effectiveness presented by Tom Clarke May (date TBD): Get Your Users in the Doghouse and Keep Yourself Out presented by Roxanne Miller July (date TBD): Project Definition: Creating a Beacon for Success presented by Fran Caggiano-Swenson September 16, 2010: The Decision Model presented by Barbara von Halle October 21, 2010: Annual General Meeting and Elections with Kathleen Barret, President of International IIBA presenting | | |
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