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Basic Flow Identification
How do you identify the basic flow? What would you do if someone was struggling to determine the basic flow for a use case?
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Hello,I would like to know about where to start get familiar with this field as i would like to start my career as Business Analyst and i hold M.B.A in information Technology but still some new concepts are there i am absolutely not familiar with.Can some suggest me any case study or project i should start from and get familiar with each and every steps involved in this with the help of developing that project/case study by myself. One more thing i would like to know that all the use cases/activity diagram/requirement document gathering are done in MS office package.Please suggest me any project name/case study with a little synopsis which i can develop by myself and can link all required phases involved in SDLC steps by steps and what about those phases where testing is involved as i do not have any testing software installed in my PC.Please help me.Thanks
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jaysan- Member Since Sep-2006 | Mar 18th, 2007
Hi,
After reading your mail I could guess that you are completly new in this field. I could advice some tips to you to get into BA Role.
i) Equipped yourself with some business domain like banking,insurance etc.
ii) Learn any technolgoy which we use to prepare case studies like Rational suit etc. it's not mandatory but it will help you in launching yourself.
iii) Expertise yourself in Word,Excel,Power point, Visio, MS-Project as these are the tools used in day to day activities.
iv) Find any case study on internet and go through some Business Requirement documents(BRD) as you need to prepare the same.
v) Equipped yourself with some technologies falvour as well it will help you in coordinating with development teams and conveying your requirements clearly and understanding their difficulties as well.
vi) Study some effort estimation techniques like FPA etc. as you need to know to prepare effort estimation as part of your job.
Last but not the least also go through testing terminologies as you need to do testing yourself and involed with users, also communication is Big factor as you will be communicated with Business users and markets and senior management.
I hope this will help you and you can get case studies on internet.
regards,
SanjaySANJAY AHUJA
- Jun 12th, 2013
Hi Sanjay
Please advice me how i can find project stories for an upcoming interview in the Pharma field.They need somebody with Blueprint Requirement center exp and working with GxP implementationLuan Nguyen
- Mar 10th, 2011
If you are new to SDLC in general I strongly recommend Software Engineering a Practical Approach by Pressman. It has 2-3 chapters on reuirements and covers all the bases for a BA. It has good contents...
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How is requirement analysis done by business analyst?
sureshvegi
- Jul 23rd, 2012
Requirement analysis can be done by different techniques such as questioning and interviewing,requirements workshop,brainstorming and idea reduction,storyboards,role play so on ..........
kacharola
- Jul 31st, 2010
Business analyst can do requirement analysis through various techniques such as interview, brain storming, JAD session. JAD session is excellent way to collect high quality requirements under one roof using facilitated workshop.
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Mention the difference between business process improvement and business process reengineering?
Harshit
- Mar 19th, 2018
The BPR technique assumes that the current process is irrelevant, does not work and therefore need a complete change(from A to Z); whereas in business process that do not require re-engineering, but n...
pgadson
- Jun 29th, 2010
Depicting fundamentally new ways of considering business functions' process redesign has also been referred to as process reengineering, requiring vision and concepual skills to develop innovative solutions for existing problems.
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How would you handle a scenario when requirements change midway in the project?
kavisekhar
- Sep 16th, 2010
The RCA need to be known.The extent of deviation need to be analysed.Accordingly the technical requirements need to be reviwed.
snehasudhir
- Sep 1st, 2009
Yes there are all possibilities that requirements can change midway and of course we need to remember that we are always trying to customize a product to our client so this is very possible to occ...
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Business Requirements Modeling
How would you use Requirements Modeling and when?
srik_ba
- Aug 16th, 2009
Each changes need mention in the modeling which is already developed. Thus covering the change, no matter what level of change it is. This will especially help in requirement tracibility matrix
anujgoenka78
- Jul 2nd, 2009
BA should use modelling only when the underlying business problem is very complex and cannot be explained in plain natural language.
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Documents Prepared by Business Analyst
What all documents does Business Analyst prepare?
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How would you transform business requirements to functional requirements?
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prsh_patel- Member Since Mar-2007 | Mar 27th, 2007
while preparing Business requirements documents you mention why you need to bulit a system, i.e. problem statement. What you need to do while creating functional requirements is you have to specify is, solution of the problem. Specify thorugly business problem and explain solution for the same.
Business requirement documents does not necessarrily contains solution part, functional requirement may contain it how end user wants the system to perform. Dont forget to add non-functional requirements same doc.
Following is the instance of Business Requirement, Functional Requirement and Non-Functional Requirement.
Business Requirements :- sales order is made against customers purchase order. Sales order is given for approval to upper authority
Functional requirement:- Sales order shall be made with reference from Purchase order and it should be approved from upper authority.
Non-Functional Requirement:- Sales order should be in proper format (Specify format) and six copy of sales order should be printed from printer in 1 minute.
Nasir
- Oct 28th, 2015
BRD depicts the business challenges and problem statements. where as FRD depicts how the solution has been defined for the problem statement. As we all know BRD is source for FRD we can elaborate and detail the requirements textually, flow diagrams, and use case models.
Abdul Salam
- Jun 24th, 2015
Business Requirement: In short word its an event the end user do on daily basis such as adding money on account by bank tellers or adding your name in waiting list while placing a call to customer c...
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BRD & FRD
what is the difference between business requirement document(BRD) and functional requirement document(FRD)?
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swapnil2882- Member Since Apr-2012 | Apr 18th, 2012
BRD: Business Requirement document states about the high level business requirement along with the business need and business problem FRD: Functional Requirement document states about the functionality required in the application designed for the business problem and need mentioned in the Business requirement document. It mentions the Functional as well as Non functional requirements. Functional requirement are described with the help of Use case description and Use case diagram where as Non functional requirements like capacity, performance etc. are also mentioned. Hope this will help you.
faraz
- Apr 12th, 2017
BRD : Its simple means What exactly customer wants this high level requirement maintain in docs called BRD.
FRD: How this high level requirements as BA we are going to achieve with functional and non-functional requirements maintain in docs is called FRD.Srikumar Menon
- Mar 31st, 2017
BRD: The key or the moto of a project
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What is the difference between BRD, SRS and Use Case documents?
patelmitesh07
- Sep 20th, 2014
Use case : A use case is a methodology used to identify, clarify, and organize system requirements. The use case is made up of a set of possible sequences of interactions between systems and users in ...
Moeen khan
- Jun 21st, 2014
BRD : It documents all the high level requirement , business users needs .i . e. , what all the application has to perform to satisfy user needs . SRS : It documents all the features of the system th...
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Explain how you organize or prioritize your workload.
How do you know when you are successful?
Aniruddha
- Jul 6th, 2017
For prioritization of the task there is an activity known as BA governance wherein we can select the task which needs to be done first based on the stake holders requirement, timeline given or is there any dependency in that particular task.
nissyec
- Mar 12th, 2016
Make a list. Work out what order to do things in by thinking about which tasks are urgent and how important each task is. If not sure whats urgent and what isnt, or how important different tasks...
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What problems did you run into while gathering requirements?
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andar777- Member Since Aug-2007 | Aug 30th, 2007
Helping users to explain their requirements.
First and for most, you must understand that for the most part, users do not understand what is happening behind the forms they are inputting data into. A Business Analyst needs to be able to view the system through the eyes of a user and though the eyes of the developer. Then negotiate a compromise that will meet the user’s needs and also maintain system integrity.
You have to peel back the onion with the users by asking leading questions, such as, If you select this value from the list box, what would you like to see happen on the screen.
If you forget about the code and focus on the behavior of the form, you'll get a lot further with users. In addition, users tend to get there backs up when they are approached by someone from IT because they tend not to feel that the IT rep understands what they are saying and they get very frustrated. If they are frustrated, then gathering solid requirements goes out the door.
I was a user before I became a BA and I'm proud of it. :-)himansnu gaur
- Oct 11th, 2011
The major problem is faced when the user is not empowered enough to take decisions. In most of the case the business requirements are changed by the bosses of the business user. Such scenario are very...
dody1108
- May 14th, 2010
Difference of opinions between business usersFrequent changes in requirements, business rulesUndocumented business rulesManaging number of requirements within available time frame
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Mention some of the tools commonly used by business analyst?
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AshishJuwa- Member Since Feb-2009 | Mar 5th, 2009
There might be various tools that you as a business analyst would be using depending upon the work environment.
The primary tools are:
MS-Office (Especially Word)
MS-Visio (for visualizing the concepts, creating diagrams)
But a lot of bigger organizations have been using Rational Software. Rational software licensing is expensive so you might not find it being used everywhere.
Rational Requisite Pro (for Requirement Management)
Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest (For change management)
I have also found that some places like using MS-Sharepoint, telelogic DOORS and other tools for document collaboration. I would say, keep a working knowledge of MS Sharepoint, at least.
Sometimes you might end up being a BA com QA. As such, it is nice to have a working knowledge of creating Test cases, using Load Runner, QTP etc.
Except for these tools if you have knowledge of RDBMS, Oracle, SQL, different operating systems, some OOP, it is always a plus.PCK Krishna
- Mar 13th, 2012
Most of the business analysts use following Tools:
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Visio
- IBM Requisite Pro
- BPMN 2.0
- SharePoint
Offcourse most important tools are communication skill and interpretation power.rajajeevankumar
- Jun 6th, 2011
As mentioned out by some of the incumbents here, Business Analysis is more to do with documentation of the requirements and how efficiently the expert communicates information across to the team devel...
Business Analyst Interview Questions
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