ABOUT THIS SESSION:
For the first time anywhere this opening session for the BBC conference will feature a discussion among leaders in the fields of business analysis, business rules and business processes addressing the convergence of practices they all see coming to better deliver aligned business capabilities.
As organizations continue to face a tough marketplace with more demanding customers and clients, scarcer resources, constraining regulations and short lifecycles it is clear that traditional ways of building business capability are no longer sufficient in and of themselves. Despite advances in business architecture, business analysis, process design and business rules analysis methods and tools, we still need more. The conference chairs realize that a convergence of methods, skills and competencies that leverage the best among all of them is needed to form an integrated capability for organizations to simultaneously improve analysis and design of their business solutions, make smarter decisions, become more agile and perform better.
Setting the pace for the conference, the Chairs will also outline what techniques and tools will be discussed in conference sessions, and offer suggestions about how attendees can apply these successfully in their own organizations.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):
Ronald G. Ross serves as Executive Editor of www.BRCommunity.com and its flagship publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences world-wide. He gives popular public seminars through AttainingEdge (www.AttainingEdge.com) and IRM-UK (www.IRMUK.co.uk).
Mr. Ross is recognized internationally as the “father of business rules.” He has served as Co-Chair of the annual Business Rules Forum Conference since 1997. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group in the 1980s, and an editor of the two landmark BRG papers, The Business Motivation Model: Business Governance in a Volatile World and the Business Rules Manifesto. He is active in OMG standards development, with core involvement in SBVR.
Mr. Ross is Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (www.BRSolutions.com). At BRS, Mr. Ross co-develops Proteus®, its landmark business requirements methodology, including the popular RuleSpeak®. Mr. Ross is the author of eight professional books. His newest are: Business Rule Concepts (2009), a just-released 3rd edition of his popular, easy-to-read 1998 handbook, and Principles of the Business Rule Approach, Addison-Wesley (2003).
Roger T. Burlton, P. Eng, is a co-founder of the BPTrends Associates. He is considered a global leader, recognized internationally for his no nonsense insights and pioneering contributions in Business Process Management since 1991.
Roger has conceived and chaired over thirty high profile BPM conferences in North and South America, Europe, Middle East and Australia including Knowledge and Process Management Europe and the BPM Conferences for Shared Insights in the US. His pragmatic BPM seminar series has been running globally since 1992 and is the longest continuous series of their kind in the world.
Roger’s highly acclaimed book “Business Process Management: Profiting from Process” is regarded as a reference book for process professionals who want to conduct process architecture initiatives, process renewal projects as well as those who wish to entrench process governance across the enterprise.
In June of 2009, Kathleen Barret became International Institute of Business Analysis’s full-time President and CEO after having held the role as a volunteer since the organization’s inception in October 2003. IIBA®, a professional association for Business Analysts, focuses on defining and enhancing the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) and implementing a certification program for qualified practitioners.
With over 25 years of experience in information technology, Kathleen has held many roles including most recently, managing offshore software development work for a large financial service organization. Her involvement in the field of business analysis began when she was asked to create a centre of competency for BAs for her company. She is experienced in CMMI and benchmarking, and through her many years of consulting, brings cross industry knowledge to her role at IIBA®.
