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Significant project achievements
Your significant project achievements from a business analysis perspective (with key project metrics (to set the context for the achievements)
nissyec
- Mar 11th, 2016
Identifying and eliciting all the requirements for the system
Improving existing process
Avoiding rework
Eliminating user conflicts by prioritizing requirements based on organizational goal
Review of acceptance criteria
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Most recent complex/challenging projects
Give me a description of the most recent complex/challenging project (in terms of stakeholders, team size, budget, business impact, etc.) where you have performed a BA role and your specific responsibilities on the project
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Missing Requirements after SRS Sign off
After SRS sign off, how do you take the missing requirements and in which document you place them if taken. What is the document maintained for change request?
Siddhi
- Jan 12th, 2016
Usually the new requirements are considered as change requests if they are to be worked on in the same phase. There could be a CR tracking sheet which will have all such requests.
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Agile Scrum
What are the roles and responsibility of product owner and scrum master?
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What would you do if the client says that you and the other analysts cannot directly talk to the users?
gaganrana
- Aug 12th, 2009
If this happens then explain the purpose of your talk (e.g. capture requirements) and why its important to talk to users directly (e.g. the quality of requirements will be better if they comes directl...
prsh_patel
- Mar 27th, 2007
Check the organisational hierarchy at the clientside, it happens many times, without permission from the department head, end user doesnt entertain any analyst.What i'll advise you is, try to talk...
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Where would you document Functional and Non Functional Requirements (i.e. deliverable)?
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How do you follow business rules in a project while working on a project?
AKS_123
- Sep 2nd, 2009
Always refer to the BRD as bible. Work back and forth between design, user input and requirements. Put place holders, create notes and check requirements before inittiating a JAD. Rule of thumb.. requ...
sandhya001
- Sep 3rd, 2007
Business rules are the key in defining any business process. example, credit card company wants to prepare the process and the key business rule is - check applicant's credit score and income. the...
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What is a traceability matrix and how do you use it when using the Unified process? What is your approach to resolving conflict during JAD sessions?
sandhya001
- Sep 3rd, 2007
Actually traceability matrix was created for keeping track of Functional Requirement against each Business Requirement. each business requirement will have multiple functional reuqirement mentioning the features, process, outcome and so on. This is part of RUP standard.
Lavanya
- Jun 11th, 2007
Traceability matrix is tracing your requirements to your test cases or any other documents. For eg: you can trace your BRD to your scope/vision document to your use cases to your test cases. Any chang...
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Tell about a time you had to make a decision. Explain what the decision was and the impact that it had.
nissyec
- Mar 11th, 2016
Explain using STAR technique
Situation --> Problem
Task --> What you had to do
Action--> solution
Result--> impact on the businessSham
- Jun 5th, 2014
I had to decide what the wear this morning. The decision impacts whether others will see me as stylish, frumpy or conservative. The decision impacts my mood and overall productivity for the day.
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Evaluating existing processes
Describe your experience evaluating existing processes and recommending updates or enhancements?
nissyec
- Mar 11th, 2016
For most of the Change Management procedures, the evaluation of existing system has to be done with an AS-IS process analysis. This may be done with document analysis or by other requirement eliciting methods. Once the analysis is done, the evaluation should be done by cause-effect or SWOT methods
MARK
- Feb 10th, 2015
You evaluate existing process by reviewing existing business process, document reviews, impact analysis and gap analysis
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How should I prepare myself for the interview of domain specialist/expert of process manufacturing industry?
rrouniyar
- Dec 20th, 2008
U need to understand BOM, Line Planning , Sourcings, Access controll, Terms like SKU, UPC Code and all
RationalBA
- Apr 13th, 2007
HI,Go to big time IT companies (Infosys, Wipro, TCS) website and You'll be able to find case studies on process manufacturing industries.....work from there and try and gain domain knowledge by understanding the project and what are they trying to achieve.
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What is the relationship between use case and test case?
chrisraeht
- May 19th, 2008
A use case is written from a "user" perspective describing the interaction of a piece of software between the user and the software. These are written in common language typically from...
prsh_patel
- Mar 27th, 2007
Hi, Use case are basically defining high level requirements of the system where as test cases are usually meant to check the correctness of the application/system.While creating test cases there is ro...
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What is the carreer path for a Business Analyst?
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Answered by: Lon Harvey
- Jan 25th, 2007
A Business Analyst in the IT field has many varied directions among which to choose a career path. The most direct would lead to a Lead Business Analyst position and then Project Manager whereby the incumbent manages projects through the entire lifecycle from inception to post-implementation including the management of business analysts, system analysts, quality assurance analysts and most likely development project managers or team leads. That path would then lead to Program Management, perhaps PMO management or Product Manager and on to Directorship.In addition, a good Business Analyst may find they are heading toward a Customer Relationship Manager position whereby they become the primary IT interface to a given Business Unit (BU). This role most often leads to a position within the BU as a Manager of Applications or a Process Management role. Process Management opens many jobs including process re-engineering, quality program development, and large scale or enterprise process management programs such as ITIL or Six Sigma initiatives. These roles will continue to proliferate as companies realize the benefits of having a SME in process and quality.And still many Business Analysts find their understanding of business process entirely portable into purely system related positions in the business side that are only peripherally related to IT. These of course may lead to quantitative roles, manager roles or operational roles such as supply chain, logistics et cetera.Of central importance to a successful Business Analyst is the interest in speaking to people. Face to face verbal communication is paramount to support other tools such as surveys and diagrams. Incumbents must be interested in understanding not only the pieces that comprise a system, but the people that comprise it and the realities that embrace the system. Briefly, the Business Analyst must understand and not judge the "what should be" and the "what is".
dmitra
- Jul 9th, 2010
When you have about 3+ months of BA experience, you will understand the path you should take from there..Business Lead is awarded to you based on your ability to perform as a leader..otherwise, BSA- B...
Lon Harvey
- Jan 25th, 2007
A Business Analyst in the IT field has many varied directions among which to choose a career path. The most direct would lead to a Lead Business Analyst position and then Project Manager whereby the i...
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What is UML?
james
- Feb 16th, 2007
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a standard language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems, as well as for business modeling and othe...
Sam_khan
- Feb 12th, 2007
UML is a general-purpose modeling language that includes a standardized graphical notation used to create an abstract model of a system.
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How do you ensure that you have focused on all the necessary details of a task?
rachel123
- Jul 17th, 2009
You could do it 2 Ways one is by checklists and the other by obtaining sign off on the docmns
megrath
- Sep 25th, 2008
After every meeting with the users, i would send them a preliminary draft of the requirements for their review, so that they can let me know if there is any missing or additional details that i may ha...
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Let us say you in a JAD session and someone is constantly trying to divert the topic from what is on agenda for you to some peripheral item. How do you bring the session back on track?
Salomee
- Sep 4th, 2007
I would have a parking lot attendants in my JAD session and will enable the facilitator to hold the right to park the out of scope items in the parking lot that will be discussed at the end of the ser...
sandhya001
- Sep 3rd, 2007
Use your diplomacy / tact.... Tell the person that you would discuss in detail once session is over. Make him important :)
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How do you manage risk for a project?
skba07
- Sep 9th, 2011
We can prepare risk register (through extensive brainstorming) to manage risks. This will contain - Risk (uncertainties) and its reasons Its impact (Low, Moderate, High) Probability (High, Medium ...
nehasahu
- Jan 5th, 2009
We can manage Risk by analysing the requirements and system. Compatibility of requirements with system(i.e databases, procedures, workflows)
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What are the list of documents that a Business Analyst needs to maintain?
dmitra
- Jul 9th, 2010
As a Business Analyst, your BA life depends and revolves on the following documents (better known as Deliverables in the BA world):BRD-Business Requirement DocumentURD-User Requirement DocumentFRD- Fu...
deepankar_joshi
- Sep 26th, 2007
Depends on what methodology you follow.For a SDLC cycle : you would idealy prepare :BAD/BRD, then SRA then SDS and TSD.You might need to maintain the Change Request Forms as project progressesFor a DS...
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Explain what is Business Procedure? How it is different from Business requirement?
rachel123
- May 17th, 2009
Business Procedure would mean nothing but the business process. You would dervive business requirements for this process
raghunathklv
- Jan 10th, 2008
To do the business, we had to know the requirement, to get the requirements we had to have the procedures. The Business procedures are the processes that are used to get the business requirements sucessfull
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Front Office Middle Office and Back Office Functions
Please give me live live example
aidiwhyte
- Mar 28th, 2010
Trades or deals are booked and executed on the front office by traders.The operators in the middle office enrich the deal by including the static data to the deal e.g. settlement instructions, currenc...
Roger_Fin
- Jan 31st, 2008
Front Office: Trades a security instrument(Stock, derivatives etc etc)Middle Office: ensures The trade data is accurate in the systemBack office: Accounting, Profit and loss report generation, reconciliation of the trades done.
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