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Welcome.
ASPE Expert Q&A Series:
“Data Skills for Business Analysts”
Today’s Expert:
• Darrel A. Raynor, PMP, CCP, MBA – Consulting partner, data-driven
project expert, project turnaround specialist
ASPE Expert Q&A Series
The next hour is about practical
answers on data‐driven results
for business analysts.
“Data Skills for
Business Analysts”
Please submit your questions in the
lower right hand corner.
Recent Facts About Data in General:
• IBM estimates that there’s about 3 zetabytes of data in the
world today…created from the dawn of humanity until now.
About 90% of that was created in the last two years. (source:
SINTEF)
• A famous IDC study a couple years ago predicted that overall
global data will grow by 50 times by 2020, driven in large part
by more embedded systems such as sensors in clothing,
medical devices and structures like buildings and bridges.
• YouTube users upload 48 hours of new video every minute of
the day. (source: Wikibon)
• 571 new websites are created every minute of the day.
“Data Skills for
Business Analysts
Please submit your questions in the
lower right hand corner.
Data?
Questions?
What are the most
common data needs of
the business analyst?
“The primary function of a Business Analyst is to ask questions
that uncover requirements then to document those requirements
so they may be developed into a useful, useable system.
…questions are a common thread for the Enterprise Architect,
Data Architect, and Business Analyst alike.
– Loretta Mahon Smith
Goals for Data Use
Must actually have a chance of changing something.
Don’t tilt at windmills, they will win.
Start the 1st day of your project,
do not wait until “Everyone
agrees on the Scope.”
Force attention to Deliverables
you can track, especially during
Requirements and Testing…
Current Tools – Commercial
“Real” data analysis tools
What are you using in your organization?
Magic Quadrant
for Business
Intelligence &
Analytics
Platforms
(source: Gartner)
“Data Skills for Business Analysts”
Q&A, discussion time: 45 minutes
“Data Skills for Business Analysts”
Q&A,
discussion
time:
45 minutes
Weighting Systems and Checklists
• Weighting systems: tools that help you take Qualitative data
and turn it into something more Quantifiable.
Once the Weighting for attributes and requirements essential
to business success are defined, the options in front of you
can be assessed against that system
• Evaluation Tools and Techniques ‐ These can be as simple as
checklists, and very often are.
Everything important to the decision is clearly defined and
assigned a priority. The decision that comes out with the best
score wins
“Data Skills for Business Analysts
Q&A,
discussion
time:
45 minutes
Source:
Matt Turck
mattturck.com
Q&A, discussion time: 45 minutes
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Today’s activity awards 1 PDU
• Today’s PDU: One Category A PDU (professional development
unit) ‐ WS100114 from provider 2161, ASPE.