Invite Phil to pump up your business analysts with one of his dynamic presentations. Learn new skills and techniques, develop best practices, and walk away having changed "it can't be done" to "now I know how to get it done".

1. Invite Phil to speak at your organization Phil Vincent Phil Vincent &Associates PO Box 13068 Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2K 1X3 [email_address]

2. Kiss the BRD Goodbye Phil Vincent [email_address] Copyright © 2008 Phil Vincent & Associates No part of this presentation may be used without the expressed, written consent of the author

3. The Trouble with Use Cases: Myths, Legends, Heresy, Outright lies and Forgotten Truths Just about everybody involved with software development uses use cases, and unfortunately just about everybody uses them differently. There is no real “standard” , but there are plenty of variations. Take a course or read a book and you are more likely to find substantially different approaches than useful commonality. This 90 minute session is a fun and high-energy game of trivial pursuit in which your participants will discover how different their understanding of use cases really are! Copyright © 2008 Phil Vincent & Associates No part of this presentation may be used without the expressed, written consent of the author

4. Let’s Write a Use Case A fun and interactive workshop to help your participants lean how to elicit requirements, document them in use case format, review them with subject matter experts, designers, developers and testers, and get the whole job done in hours instead of days or weeks. Whether you are interviewing SME’s one-on-one, in JAD workshops or over the phone an Internet, this workshop will give your business analysts powerful new skills to greatly improve your Business Analysis. A half day workshop.

5. Why RUP Doesn’t Work “ The Rational Unified Process is not a process” After all your investment in the Rational Unified Process, in Rational tools and Rational Training, you aren’t getting the payback you expected. But some people seem to do just fine with RUP. So what’s wrong? Business Modeling Requirements Analysis and Design Implementation Test Deployment Configuration Management Project Management Environment Engineering disciplines Support disciplines