Keep up to date with the latest thinking and industry insights. Watch or download presentations, including keynote talks, made by members of the AssistKD team at national and international conferences.

Dr Debra Paul – The service mindset; whose value is it anyway? At the Business Change and Transformation Conference 2021.

Debra Paul explores the nature of service, what this promises for service recipients and the importance of value co-creation. Finally, she explains how understanding the service mindset helps us to define and give clarity to the business analyst role.

Dr Debra Paul – Delivering Business Analysis as a Service. At the IIBA Balkan Business Analysis Conference 2021.

In this talk, Debra Paul explores why we need a better definition of the business analyst role, and how we can draw upon the service mindset to better explain what we do and the relevance of our work to those outside the BA ‘bubble’. 

Dr Debra Paul - The Future of Business Analysis at BA Conference Europe 2019.

In this video, Dr Debra Paul discusses the future of business analysis with Adrian Reed. This video was taken at the BA Conference Europe 2019.

Why Assist Knowledge Development became one of the founding members of the BA Conference Europe?

Ever wondered why Assist Knowledge Development became one of the founding members of the BA Conference Europe? Find out more in this video with AssistKD's Director Chris Martin.

IIBA UK Women in Technology.

AssistKD's Debbie Paul was part of the UK IIBA's panel discussion on Women in Technology.

Business Analysis - the third wave.

AssistKD's Debra Paul considers the challenges this will present to practising business analysts now and in the future.

Slides from the Agile Business Analysis Book Launch held in July at the BCS.

AssistKD's Martin Maya presented at the IIBA South West branch on Using capabilities to deliver organisational agility.

AssistKD's Debra Paul presented at the BCS Proms-G Spring School 2016 on decision-making in business.

AssistKD's Debra Paul discussed the need to think about the person not the job title and suggests some frameworks and techniques that can help us work successfully with the people we encounter in our professional lives.

AssistKD's Debra Paul spoke at the IIBA seminar on Business Analysis and Requirements.

Debra Paul spoke at the BCS Project Management Specialist Group's meeting on the topic of "the Human Touch" in Business.

Location - Radisson Blu, Portland Square, London

AssistKD's Debra Paul gave a keynote at this prestigious event which looked at the new, third wave of Business Analysis.

AssistKD's Debra Paul discusses the breadth of the Business Analyst role and the range of techniques used to perform this effectively. She explores how Requirements Engineering relates to business analysis within the context of both industry practice and the BCS professional certification scheme.

Written and delivered by AssistKD's James Cadle at the BCS, Nottingham on 15/04/2013. This presentation looks at various important topics surrounding Risk within an IS project context.

This presentation considered the role of the BA and how it has evolved into a professional discipline. However, there are still many project failures and this session considered the reasons for these failures and the contribution BAs can make to project and business success.

This presentation considered the role of the BA and how it has evolved into a professional discipline. However, there are still many project failures and this session considered the reasons for these failures and the contribution BAs can make to project and business success.

There is no universally accepted career structure or competency framework available for a business analysis practice. Every organisation is different and one size should not fit all. This session focused on an approach to devising a skills framework within which BA roles can be defined and capability measured.

This presentation highlights the issue of fragmented, silo thinking within the area of business change, and considers how we might use established models and approaches to overcome this.

This presentation examines the drivers for business analysis - originally when the role emerged and in the light of the current business and economic climate. The session then looks at how BAs can use their professional expertise to add value to business change projects.

This seminar considers the Agile philosophy and approaches, and evaluates the BAs contribution to business agility.