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BA Role
What is the role of BA in Design, Build, Test phases of a project? Explain.
feverx4u
- Jan 29th, 2009
Here are some roles (methodologies) that business analyst have to complete in a project 1. Enterprise analysis. 2. Requirements management and planning. 3. Requirements elicitation. 4. Requireme...
megrath
- Sep 30th, 2008
Its the responsibilty of BA to ensure that all the requirements of the business users are well understood by the degin team..BA has to make sure that all the requirements are clear to design team for ...
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Business Plan Evaluation
How Business Plan Evaluation is performed by Business Analyst? List out the traditional tools that being used
feverx4u
- Feb 1st, 2009
We do 1. Enterprise analysis. 1.1 Creating and maintaining business architecture. 1.2 Conducting feasibility studies. 1.3 Determining project scope. 1.4 Preparing the business case. 1.5 Conducti...
firashamade
- Feb 17th, 2008
I would include functional, non fuctional requirements, and treacability matrix in the Business Plan Evaluation
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Tell me about your experience with the SDLC.
feverx4u
- Feb 1st, 2009
SDLC A business idea or request. Feasibility (business case). Planning (business requirements, functional requirements). Implementation (coding, execution of activities). Testing (t...
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What are the various forms of security implemented at hardware, software, human ware, and buildings in a computing environment ?
AshishJuwa
- Mar 5th, 2009
Hardware: Firewalls, Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, Network securitySoftware: Username/passwords, biometric, Antivirus, internet access restriction to certain traffic types Human Ware: T...
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What are the professional certifications a business analyst must possess?
hiaca
- Mar 13th, 2009
The question is 'must' possess. The answer is none. Ideal would be IIBA's CBAP or for UK ISEB. But again only ideal, not must.
sdkelso
- Aug 24th, 2007
The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)? has developed the Business Analysis Body of knowledge (currently version 1.6) and a certification designation of CBAP, Certified Business Analy...
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Flaws in the template
As a Business analyst what would you do if the template has been rolled out in the organization and it has many flaws and you are not comfortable with it. When it was made the client didn't have much experience with use case template.
nehay2k5
- Apr 13th, 2009
If I feel there are flaws in the template, I will take the better template which fills the gap which they have currently. I will explain the PM first and then if we have the meeting, I will compare the both and tell the advantage and disadvantage of both.
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Who uses the output produced by business analyst?
rachel123
- May 16th, 2009
It is used by: Business: Act as a documentation repository for their business process and what they expect from the system being built. The BRD's are signed off by business. Dev team: They would r...
devineni.bhavya
- Jan 17th, 2008
The output will be used by the Both IT and Non-It People,as IT people use this document as key for the building of the application and Non - It people use those document where they can see prototype of their application.
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How do a business analyst contributes in doing control flow in a project?
rachel123
- May 17th, 2009
Process wise you can depict control flow or work flow using UML modeling.Project perspective the BA's core responsibilities would be to ensure the requirement doc and artifacts follows the correct pro...
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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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How do you use traceability matrix when using Unified process?
rachel123
- May 17th, 2009
Tracebilty matrix helps you audit the life of the requirement.This can be done using any of the Requirement MANAGEMENT Tools like DOORS,Req Pro etc
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Decompose Functional Requirements
What have you done to decompose functional requirements to bring to the testing teams? (This should be answered in a way to explain the process that was involved also).
jaskanwar
- Jun 11th, 2009
Apart from the answers mentioned above, I guess a detailed FSD(Functional Spec document) or FRS/MRD etc should be detailed enough to breakdown each functional spec in its lowest form and should explai...
DUBYAB
- Nov 14th, 2008
What have you done to decompose functional requirements to bring to the testing teams? (This should be answered in a way to explain the process that was involved also). I believe, 'decomposing'...
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Interface / Integration mapping
Explain What is Interface / Integration mapping?
jaskanwar
- Jun 11th, 2009
Well its a subjective jargon which is used differently at different point of times.My understanding to this is :For example you have a legacy system which needs to interact with third party system, fo...
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Screen Mock Up or Wirescreens
Which stage of the project does a BA prepare Screen Mock ups? What does he do with them.
jaskanwar
- Jun 11th, 2009
Agreed to both of the points mentioned above...also Wireframes are used during the 'Prototype phase'
DUBYAB
- Nov 14th, 2008
I would say that screen mockups or wirescreens are only required when someone asks for them or when you feel you need them to further elaborate on the requirements. The BA is not a designer.&nbs...
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BA - Challenges
What real challenges does a BA face in different phases of the project.
jaskanwar
- Jun 11th, 2009
Well another challenge that a BA faces is that "Requirements are not very clear" alwaysGenerally during eliciting requirements the business users are not too clear on what exactly they ...
DUBYAB
- Nov 14th, 2008
Some of the challenges a BA faces during the lifecycle:1. a PM who does not trust their resources to complete the job or the tasks they are paid to do...instead making them a 'glorified secretary&...
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What are the problems Business Analyst could face during gathering Business requirements
mhbhat
- Jun 22nd, 2009
Problems BA can face while requirement gathering Conflicting requirements/Controdictory StatementsUndocumented ProcessLack of access to the end-usersBad requirementsStakeholder's d...
nehasahu
- Jan 4th, 2009
I feel the main problem which a BA faces is changing requirements. In some project the requirements keep on changing.The BA has to keep a track of all those requirements.
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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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What are the problems solved by business analysis?
gaganrana
- Aug 12th, 2009
Primarily communications problem.As BA bridge the gap between business community and technical community. So, they work as a skilled professional who captures requirements from business (non-technical...
devineni.bhavya
- Jan 22nd, 2008
As a BA, The most critical part is in gathering requirements (we should understand them very well from a Business User /stake holder point of view!!!)Reason: There might be a chance for the whole proj...
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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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How to differentiate a Agile diagram and RUP diagram?
gaganrana
- Aug 13th, 2009
I would like to assume that Agile diagrams means Agile methodology process and RUP diagram means RUP process. So, Agile processes are primarily quick iteration based (2-4 weeks) and consists of small ...
priyankam9
- Apr 27th, 2008
RUP(Rational Unified Process) we do the process iteratively.Agile is similar to waterfall methodology.RUPThe basic difference is that in RUP each and every phase will move on iteratively(Analysis and ...
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How do you handle a situation when clients/users have conflicting requirements for a project?
priyankam9
- Apr 27th, 2008
By conducting JRP(Joint Requirement Planning) sessionIn this session we willl invite our SMEs(Subject Matter Experts) so called Business Users/Clients pertaining to all the groups.We will go thru the ...
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