BA Slash #11 event: Do we understand each other?  Language and Business Analysis (Sally Barrow)
Channel: BA Slash
Date: 2021-05-19

🤔  Topic: Do we understand each other?  Language and Business Analysis 💬

Description
Whether a long-term employee or an external consultant, the Business Analyst is part of a diverse team with an ear open to all, from business owners to IT professionals. This puts the BA in a great position to spot and manage misunderstandings.
With examples from her own knowledge and experience, Sally will seek to draw insights and to entertain.

Speaker bio
Sally Barrow has just started her first contract officially employed as a business analyst. The route to this is a career that has gone from IT to law and back to IT - now with special domain knowledge.
Much of her work has touched on business analysis, including early experience analysing customer requirements and subsequent diversion of a research career with Hewlett-Packard into business development - helping to provide customer insights in the changing world of the mid-90s.
A change of career to law provoked an interest in legal IT, since when Sally has enjoyed occupying the territory between technology developers and their customers.

The focus on language and misunderstandings goes back to Sally's high school roots, where she developed a habit of checking how a word translated back into English before using it in anger. 
Sally is on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sbskills/

Event date/time: 12 May 2021 (Wed) 5:45pm GMT

#BASlash #Agile #BusinessAnalysis #BusinessAnalyst

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