Topic: Uncommon Techniques for BAs

As per the Uncommon League (https://theuncommonleague.com/) in their Uncommon Book of Analysis Techniques, 11 million meetings in the United States are held every day with more than 4 billion meetings occurring each year with half of the meeting attendees believing the meeting was unproductive and 2/3rds of meetings ending before decisions are made or the meeting goal was met.

Can you relate? The Business Analyst (BA) is charged with facilitating meetings/workshops, etc. and eliciting a collaborative group of folks in order to be successful.  Although BAs have techniques in their toolbox, how effective are they?  As a BA does your favorite technique(s) used during facilitation provide the most value while also engaging all meeting attendees and ensuring collaboration? 

In consideration of Collaborative Games in IIBA’s BABOK version 3 (page 243), gamification is useful to “…encourage participants in an elicitation activity to collaborate in building a joint understanding of a problem or a solution.”  In January’s chapter meeting we'll try three uncommon techniques that will engage, shake things up, and get people to think differently.

Agenda
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM  Networking & light meal
6:30 PM - 8 PM        Meeting (approximate timeline below)

• 6:30p - 6:45p Introductions and Announcements
• 6:45p - 7:30p Games!
• 7:30p - 8p      Wrap-up & Networking

We hope you will join us!