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Business Requirement Elicitation Techniques: Brainstorming: Done properly (without censoring ideas as you go) and with the right audience (representatives of each group, SMEs, stakeholders), brainstorming has the most potential to prevent gotchas down the road, capturing needs you didn’t know about, processes no one mentioned, and things you hadn’t thought of. …

Challenging areas for a BA 1. Faulty Requirements Collection: All the stakeholders will be from different teams and areas and will have specific needs and different interests within the business. There will be conflicting requirements and different outcomes that they desire. A business analyst needs to bring them on common …

Process of Stakeholders Analysis: I. Identify your stakeholders: Who are the Stakeholders : A “Stakeholder” is any Person or Group of Persons who provide knowledge and expertise necessary to quantify technical and business constraints. Project Stakeholders: Business Analyst: Project Manager Development Team:  Sr. Software Engineer , Software Engineer, Project Engineer …

Gap analysis is a simple tool to help you identify the gap between the current and the future state that you want to reach ,along with the tasks that you need to complete to close the gap. Gap analysis is useful in the beginning of the process while developing a …

Solution Assessment and Validation is the method of ensuring that the solution (justification) built matches the requirements. Business Analyst should use RTM and Requirements specifications documents as tools to assess the solution completeness. The assessment is used to address the performance issues and root cause, by understand the pain points and …

Behavioural Characteristics are very important skill set for business analyst this can be achieved by being a promoter which includes being high energetic, enjoyable to be around, initiate relationships, motivating and goal oriented. And also being a strong supporter who is dedicated and committed towards his work, as well as …

Competencies of a Business Analyst   Every year many organizations around the world are facing high rates in project failures, as per research only 30% of projects are completed on the right time with approved budget out of which only 50 percent end up meeting proposed functionality. For eg: If …

ROLE OF BUSINESS ANALYST IN SCRUM • A BA can work as a proxy Product owner and proxy Scrum master in SCRUM. • After Requirement planning, BA conducts multiple requirement gathering sessions with multiple stakeholders and analyses the requirements. • BA create ‘Feature list’ where all the finalized requirements are …

DO’s & DON’Ts as Business Analyst: • A BA should not be in hurry to understand the requirements. • BA should be in empty mind with no assumption while taking the requirements from client. • A BA never Say ‘No’ to client. • A BA Try to extract more question …

Business Analysis Life Cycle Overview: Business analysis is a research to identify the business needs and to determine the solutions for the Business problems. The solution could be a software system development but it also consists of process improvement, organizational change or strategic planning and policy development and the person …