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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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Use Case Flow
What would you do if someone was struggling to determine the basic flow process for a Use Case?
dmitra
- Jul 9th, 2010
The answer is in your quesion...if someone is not able to understand a BASIC workflow, then you have done the use case incorrectly...Use Case and Workflows are implimented to make someone understand w...
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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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Brief each and individual process from capturing the requirements to the project excution i.e.What are the stage involved What are docs created When does the data modelling takes placeAt what stage is the high level and low level design made How is the functional requirements mapped ?What kind of gap analysis is made what does the doc contains ie formatHow does the pricing take place ie the method How is resource allocation taken care How does the customer interface takes place ie formal or informal and what is the docs created from this interface.
prakash_ba
- Sep 30th, 2010
Project Phase Expected Roles for Business AnalystProjectInitiation• Investigate, formulate & agree terms of reference• Establish relationshipsAnalysis &Specification• Investiga...
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Explain about requirement gathering
caalap
- Feb 4th, 2011
Requirement = a condition or capability to which a system should adhere to.Gathering requirement generally inludes discussing various conditions or capabilities with different stakeholders in that organization for which a software needs to be develope.
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Business Analyst Key Skills
What are the key skills required to become an BA?
caalap
- Feb 4th, 2011
Qualities of Business Analyst: (1) Interpersonal Skills (2) Good Negotiation Skills (Man, Money and Material) (3) Leadership
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Requirement Capturing
What is your experience with writing Use Cases? What methods you have used for capturing requirements?
Sowmya Vasisht
- Mar 11th, 2011
The different methods of requirement gathering depends on the client location.Via Conf calls, emails, Prototypes or onsite one-on-one communication with client.Also there are different methodologies used according to the project and client requirement1. Waterfall2. Agile3. Iterative and incremental.
veronica1988
- Sep 14th, 2010
Used case diagrams can be created using tools such as MS Visio and Rational Rose. Also writing use case specifications is an essential part as they can be later used for preparing test cases during th...
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Business Analyst of Banking
Outline the essential skills of a Banking Busines Anlyst?
Reggie Villanueva
- Apr 8th, 2011
Basics: 1. Deposit 2. Loans 3. Treasury 4. Trade 5. Remittances more: existing it infrastructure / solution backroom systems monetary board and other compliance requirements and re...
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High Level Use Case?
What is high level use case? What are the list of documents a business analyst should maintain?
Vishal Dholariya
- Jun 20th, 2011
I would consider high level use case as a detailed use cases.It contains, Name of use case Unique ID &nbs...
rachel123
- Jun 18th, 2008
A high level use case tends to be more narrative.It would be description in a paragraph or two depicting the high level requirements relative to the application
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JAD Sessions
What should be the approach to resolve conflicts during JAD Sessions?
kaispeaks
- Jun 21st, 2011
What exactly do you "do" in a JAD session..do you have a template you follow? do you whiteboard?
zaclancer
- Oct 13th, 2008
When there is a conflict during a JAD session, i would try to narrow down the scope of the conflict, usually it would be about a specific requirement or a part of the business process flow. I would re...
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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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What is Workflow?
Is this just flow charting a process? or is it something particular?
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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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Use Case document
Is use case a separate document or it is part of Functional Specification ?
mithr17
- Oct 17th, 2011
It is part of the functional spec but...Use cases are detailed in a separate document and it's copy is referenced in Functional spec.
This is especially the case when its an enterprise application.Akangsha Nirmale
- Sep 20th, 2011
It is a part of functional specification.
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How to conduct a JAD Session?
Is there a template of how the JAd session should be ran, what is done? What is the deliverable after the JAd session? Are you asking questions then white boarding?
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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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What are skills required for business analyst?
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nehasahu- Member Since May-2007 | Jan 4th, 2009
Skills required for business analyst:
1)Analytical skills
2)Technical skills
3)Manegerial skills
4)Negotiation skills
5)excellent communication and writing skillsmanikandan
- Oct 17th, 2011
Why ? ITIL certification is required for BA
gabriel
- Oct 3rd, 2011
This is young business analyst your response toward this question has lead me to successful returns thanks! keep it up.
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Sharepoint
What is Sharepoint and How does BA work with sharepoint?
nagarjuna
- Nov 23rd, 2011
Share point is technology,it provides the features to people who work collaboratively in the application
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ii is nothing but technology,here the people shares the data in collaborate mannerdpmanuu
- Feb 3rd, 2010
Sharepoint is a software that allows you to manage the data / documents / contents in an effective manner and at a single location. All documents are stored at a single location, sharepoint. ...
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Is there a technique to white boarding?
What do you whiteboard? the process flow? the user story? I have an interview and i think they are going to want me to demo how i whiteboard?
Business Analyst Interview Questions
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