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Business Analyst
What are the tools used by Business Analyst to gather requirements. Do they do it using, MS Word, Visio, MS Project or are there any specific tools?
fattyreflyer
- Sep 8th, 2009
Another good tool that is not tied to any particular (read: proprietary) process or method is Enterprise Architect.
feverx4u
- Feb 1st, 2009
Few more 1 Test Director: Requirements traceability tool. 2 IRise Manager (This is an excellent requirement Gathering tool, go to irise.com to get more info about this) 3 Rational Suite (used to...
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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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BA - Role in End User Support
What role does a BA play in the End User Support? Explain in steps the process in detail.
panchi
- Oct 13th, 2009
IBA provides support to the end user in performing user acceptance testing (UAT) and also BA gives training to the end users after the product is moved to the production phase.
panchi
- Oct 13th, 2009
BA guides the End User in 1. Performing UAT (User Acceptance Testing)2. Provides Training to the End Users after the product is moved into the production phase.
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Reporting Tool
What are the reporting tools used by BA. How do you decide that which reports you have to extract or on what basis you extract the report? What are the fields or the data when you extract in a report? How often you extract report.
Inclus12
- Oct 26th, 2009
Guess your question needs to be more specific. but the general idea is it depends on what sort of report is expected and who the user is. For example if you are using Business Objects to create a repo...
dpkhca
- Oct 6th, 2009
For best solution a BA should pref use Business Intelligence tools as Cognos, Discoverer, Crystal reports etc. These BI tools can provide you with a high level as well as detailed reporting. Number ...
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Difference between PM and BA
What is the difference between a project manager and a Business analyst ?
IT_Engineer
- Feb 23rd, 2013
When the project originates within the business unit, the Business Analyst writes the Business Case which funds the project. The Project Manager is brought in later to lead the implementation of the ...
Deepthi
- Sep 18th, 2012
Project Manager: The PMO (The Project Management) office assigns the Project Manager in the initial phase of the product development. The PM does all the Enterprise analysis which include the Feasibil...
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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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Business Analyst Interview Questions
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