The regular monthly meeting of the Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) will be held Thursday, April 9, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Wal-Mart David Glass Technology Center, True North Conference Center.
The presentation will be:
“The IIBA Certification Process to Obtain the CBAP®”, Annette Coody, Senior Business Analyst, Wal-Mart, Inc.
The CBAP® (IIBA BA certification) is a bit daunting. The application process requires that you thoroughly document that you really do have more than five years of business analysis experience, and then there’s the exam itself. This is very important because we, as a profession, want the certification to be meaningful and strong because we know that simply memorizing a bunch of BA terms and techniques does not make a person a Business Analyst. Annette will describe the application and exam processes for those interested in pursuing certification.
About Annette Coody:
Annette is a Senior Business Analyst for Wal-Mart ISD specializing in Transportation Systems. She has over 25 years of experience in logistics, and is the NWA IIBA Chapter Vice-President of Education.
The NWA IIBA Chapter has been chartered since 2008, and held its first meeting on October 2, 2008, at the Wal-Mart campus in Bentonville, AR. The Chapter meets on the first Thursday of every month, and alternates locations between the Wal-Mart campus in Bentonville, AR, and the Tyson World Headquarters in Springdale, AR.
You can contact the NWA IIBA at info@nwa.theiiba.org.
This months meeting was moved back to the first Tuesday to facilitate a special presentation from Chris Koenig, Lap Around the Live Framework and Mesh Services.
Learn about the Live Framework, our latest offering for developers programming against our Live Services from any device, platform, runtime, or programming language. See new and future services (such as Mesh Services), protocols, APIs, and tools which enable your web, service, or client applications to access, store, and synchronize user data with Live Services, obtain audience analytics data, and more
Jeff Mullins, Associate Director of the Masters of Information System at the University of Arkansas, will also be talking about Continuing Education in Information Technology in the Lightning Round.
In the IT field, you have to keep learning. Whether you keep learning because you want to, or because you have to (if you don’t, someone else will), many options exist for IT professionals to expand the breadth and depth of their skill sets. This presentation will explore several different options for continuing education in the IT field, including self-learning, traditional training, conferences, and a couple of interesting part-time graduate school programs.
When:
5:30 PM - 5:45 PM - Welcome and News, Sign-in and Food
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Lighting Presentation
6:00 PM - 6:10 PM - Intermission – Presenter switch over
6:10 PM – 7:30 PM – Main Presentation
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Closing and Prize give-a-ways
Where:
The Jones Center
922 East Emma Avenue
Springdale, AR 72764
Room 130 (Generations Room)
I’ll see you there.
A great friend of mine, Claudio Lassala, will be presenting at the Ozark .NET User Group tonight. Claudio is an awesome presenter and you should clear your calendar and plan to attend.
There is a large group from Northwest Arkansas making the trip so if you want to go but don’t have a ride call around, it looks like we are going to have a convoy. ;-).
Not only is there going to be a great speaker giving two presentations, “Tips and Tricks to Boost Productivity” and “Beyond the Core Concepts of OOP” but the give-a-way list is huge. Can you say laptop!!!
I’ll see you there.
BIO: Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events such as PDC Brazil and various other Microsoft seminars, as well as several conferences and user groups across North America and Brazil. He is a multiple winner of the Microsoft MVP Award since 2001 (for Visual FoxPro in 2001-2002, and for C# every since), an INETA speaker, and also holds the MCSD for .NET certification. He has articles published on several magazines, such as MSDN Brazil Magazine, CoDe Magazine, UTMag, Developers Magazine, and FoxPro Advisor.
The regular monthly meeting of the Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) will be held Thursday, April 9, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Wal-Mart David Glass Technology Center, True North Conference Center (directions and maps are at the end of this message as PDF files). The presentation will be:
“The IIBA Certification Process to Obtain the CBAP®”, Annette Coody, Senior Business Analyst, Wal-Mart, Inc.
The CBAP® (IIBA BA certification) is a bit daunting. The application process requires that you thoroughly document that you really do have more than five years of business analysis experience, and then there’s the exam itself. This is very important because we, as a profession, want the certification to be meaningful and strong because we know that simply memorizing a bunch of BA terms and techniques does not make a person a Business Analyst. Annette will describe the application and exam processes for those interested in pursuing certification.
About Annette Coody:
Annette is a Senior Business Analyst for Wal-Mart ISD specializing in Transportation Systems. She has over 25 years of experience in logistics, and is the NWA IIBA Chapter Vice-President of Education.
Just completed a great day yesterday at the Tulsa School of Dev! Rob Tennyson, Devlin Liles, and myself headed over very early. All three of us gave presentations that were really well received. Rob presented on Advanced Linq, Devlin covered some great info on Sql Server Reporting Services, and I gave a new presentation on using WCF Syndication to consume and create RSS/ATOM feeds.
Despite the snow, which came down like a Colorado blizzard, the turn out was good and we all had a great time. Thanks to David Walker for having me and the Arkansas gang out we had a great time.
Now it is time to finish gearing up for the Northwest Arkansas Code Camp on April 25th. Hopefully we won’t have any snow.