The Integrated Business Analyst – Aligning Business Analysts and Business Architects

In this version of Sound Notes, we sit down to talk with Enterprise Transformation Consultant, Russ Peńa ahead of his talk at the 2015 Building Business Capability Conference in Las Vegas. Pulling from this background with IIBA and his role as the former Chief Methodologist of a Fortune 500 Bank, Russ discusses the differences between Business Analysts and Business Architects and how Business Analysts can grow themselves professionally to become Business Architects. From there, Russ and Dave discuss how Business Analysts can hone their chops to think strategically, the growth of IIBA and the crucial partnership between Business Analysts and Business Architects.