Category Archives: presentations

Skills for Success: Professional Development Day @ IIBA Minn / St. Paul

I will be giving a new version of my talk about Behavior Based Requirements at this year’s Professional Development Day in Minneapolis / St. Paul. I am excited because I have reworked the entire presentation to both show my passion and give attendees a chance to practice using the Given-When-Then requirements format. The conference title

Moderating: Core Competencies & Building the Better BA

The IIBA Dallas Chapter is hosting their inaugural Professional Development Day on Saturday, April 6. Here’s an information link for more details. I will be moderating a panel over lunch, discussing the keynote address, Core Competencies given by Dr. Joyce Statz. I hope to see you there!

Agile User Stories Are Easy (IIBA Fort Worth)

I had the pleasure of speaking to the IIBA chapter in Cowtown last night. That’s Fort Worth for those of you unfamiliar with the Great State of Texas. Total attendance was 15 people and we had some good conversation. There were not many questions during the presentation, but enough to let me know they were listening.

Behavior-Based Requirements

I am excited more people are talking about Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for Business Analysts. I know of three different presentations about the topic in Wisconsin this year! I had no idea this state was such a hotbed for BAs. I am giving two different versions of my presentation this coming month. The first presentation

Presenting this week!

Our speaker at this week’s IIBA Dallas Chapter meeting is very ill. With only 48-hours, it’s not much time to get a new speaker, so I will be presenting! Please come on over this Thursday to hear me present on Feature Injection and Behavior Driven Development (BDD).   Unleashing the Power of Behavior Driven Development

Using BDD & Feature Injection

I am very excited to be talking this morning at the Building Business Capabilities Conference 2011. The organizer, Rising Media, has done a fabulous job with over 900 attendees with 4 related, but separate focus areas. My presentation, Using Behavior Driven Development and Feature Injection to Build Better Software will be @ 11:30 AM in

Building Better Acceptance Criteria

As you can see from the widget on the right, I am speaking at the Building Business Capabilities conference this year. I’m super excited to be included as part of baf: Business Analysis Forum, billed as The Official Conference of IIBA. As far as I am concerned, there are three great confereces for BAs in