Requirement gathering template “must haves”
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you listen to words like “Software as a service”? Software distribution or licensing model, application hosting platform, pay as you go, future…
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How Can I Create Good Definitions?
You are expected to ace in one skill while aiming for a business analyst role. Good stakeholder management skills followed by documentation skills will take you places. Now that I have started actively…
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What are the 3 essential skills that a business analyst should have?
If I had to coach someone into a business-analyst career, I would tell them this: the tools are easy to learn, but the mindset and people skills are what set great BAs apart….
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What is difference between an Analyst and a Business Analyst?
People often use “Analyst” and “Business Analyst” as if they were the same thing. They are not. “Analyst” is a broad umbrella, and the Business Analyst is just one specialised role underneath it….
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Are business analysts required to know coding?
Typically, business analysts are not required to know coding. However, there are some companies that look out for a technical functional business analyst. A technical functional business analyst doesn’t write code per se…
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What are the types of business analysts?
“Business Analyst” is one of those job titles that means very different things in different companies. Over the years I have worked alongside several flavours of BA, and the day-to-day work can look…
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Define the scope of work for the business analysis activities
The scope of the business analysis work comes from the business analysis deliverables and becomes part of the overall project scope. The business analyst, in defining the business analysis scope or work, works…
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Final considerations for selecting the business analysis approach
In selecting the appropriate approach, the complexity of the project should be taken into consideration. Such factors, as those listed below, will affect the approach chosen. As any of these project attributes increase,…
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How BA is handled in waterfall and agile?
The two approaches that have been considered in the first section below are the Waterfall and Agile. Because both Waterfall and Agile approaches can be done incrementally, an Incremental process, as a separate…
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How to develop estimates for business analysis work?
Estimates are developed in conjunction with the project manager, other team members, and according to the approved organizational process assets, including methodology and templates for developing estimates. This estimate will provide the project…
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What is UAT? and how to write one!
Testing is one of the critical phases in the software development cycle. The testing can be understood as a process where the users get hands-on experience on software in order to cross-check or…
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Non-functional Requirements – Why do we need them?
Non-functional requirements, what comes to our mind when we talk about NFR (Non-functional requirements)? When we say non-functional we typically mean those requirements that are not related to the functionality of the system,…
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The End is Near for Business Analysts in Agile!
A Business Analyst often finds himself/herself struggling to understand the job role he/she is expected to play. Many things have changed since the adoption of Agile methodology which is also a reason for…
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Requirements gathering feels like torture to you?
If you were to search ‘requirements elicitation cartoon’ in google images, you would see there are several cartoons that compare Requirements Elicitation to Torture. So why do people compare requirements elicitation to torture?…
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Stakeholder Analysis – How to manage difficult stakeholders?
To begin with, what is a stakeholder? A stakeholder can be individual or organisations whose interests may be affected in case of any changes in the project planning and execution. Stakeholder or client…
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Meaning of being a Business Analyst
When I started my career five years ago as an IT Analyst with UK based firm called Hedges Direct, the term was pretty new here in India which meant the opportunities were scarce…
