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Agile Dev West 2016 - Business Analysis & Requirements

Thursday, June 9

Faye Thompson
CareWorks Tech
BT10

Great Business Analysts “Think Like a Freak”

Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

In today's competitive market, employers increasingly depend on business analysts to act as change agents. This puts BAs in the powerful position of influencers—providing the analysis and evidence needed to support an organization’s strategic direction and decision-making. In their book, Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner provide a blueprint for critical thinking, offering to “retrain our brains” toward a new approach to problem-solving. Faye Thompson explores this framework and how the popular economists have used it to analyze complex economic problems. Faye then...