July 2016 Chapter Meeting
Forward Thinking for Tomorrow's Projects: Requirements for Business Analytics
Normal people don't look at data sets just for fun; they analyze them to make business decisions. Business analysts are more frequently finding themselves on strategic projects that turn large and often highly complex data sets into meaningful information from which conclusive decisions and actions can be derived. Analysis of big data is already a reality today in most IT organizations and will grow in significance as businesses look to gain a better understanding for capturing structuring;and learning from their data.
In this presentation, we will offer advice on tackling requirements for business analytics projects. Seilevel outlines how to elicit strategic analytics decisions to help prioritize requirements work, and how to prepare for the future of big data by specifying data needs. Participants will hear examples of questions they can use to engage businesses to think outside the box about their requirements, and consider new possibilities from analytics projects.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Understand what you need to know about business analytics and big data as a business analyst or product manager.
- Learn an approach to software requirements for business analytics projects.
- Review visual models you can use for business analytics requirements.
- Learn how to use decisions to prioritize your analytics requirements.
Geraldine Mongold, Senior Product Manager, Seilevel
Geraldine Mongold is a product manager at Seilevel, a professional services company whose mission is to redefine the way software requirements are developed. She is a PMP who, over the span of her career, has been a soldier, software developer, teacher, marketing analyst, project manager, business analyst, and consultant. As a consultant at Seilevel, she helps customers create software project requirements that meet their business objectives while reducing project scope and cost. A former resident of McLoud Oklahoma, Geraldine now hangs her hat in south Austin, where she spends her free time trying to grow a garden in solid limestone.