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A good business case captures and documents the reasoning for starting a new project. A business case helps to determine whether or not a project justifies an organizations investment into a project. This will also tells how the project will benefit the business and describe what the end state of …

We must understand that the change request, is always a requirement which changes over a period of a time.  Many a times requirements change, they have to be managed throughout the project. BA’s must and should be prepared for change request and management throughout the Project life cycle. Whenever a …

Feasibility study:   Feasibility study is the 2nd second phase of the SDLC. At this stage it is decided whether to proceed or not with the new system. We have different factors to be considered while developing a new system. The different types of feasibility study are: Technical:  At this …

A Business Analyst is the core member of the project team. He is a star of any project. He is a friend of business. He resolves complexity. He offers solution. He mitigates risk. He delivers value to the customer. In any project a ‘Value‘ can be defined by two aspects …

ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM The ER model explains the overall view of a database. It works with real-world entities and associations among them. The ER model is considered as a best option for designing databases. Entity An entity can be a real-world object or a thing that can be identified easily. …

Analytical thinking and problem solving Today we see ,hear and face many problems in our daily life. We get panic for every small problem. If we start thinking , how to solve a problem and solutions for it, then we can win in all spheres of life. For this we …

Documentation Documentation is the most important aspect for any BA. The documentation is useful to depict the requirements and the detailed discussion about new features and change request if any. There are many different types of documents that a BA prepares. Some of the important ones are listed below – …

Root Cause Analysis Root Cause Analysis is one of the technique used to identify the problems areas which creates gap in providing business solution to their customers in an organization. Also determines cause and effect of current challenges which depicts the process of identifying the rout cause which helps to …

An Entity Relationship diagram is a graphical representation of all objects coming under system boundary. It has three components called entity, relationship and cardinality. Components of ER diagram Entities – represented by rectangles Relationships – represented by diamonds. Attributes – represented by ovals. Cardinality- represented by lines.   How to …

      Traditional Waterfall treats Analysis, Design, Coding, and Testing as phases in a software project. This worked OK when the cost of change was high. But it hurts us in a couple of ways like Quality, visibility, handling changes. Agile development uses clear delivery vehicles to bring structure to any …