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Prototyping and wireframing are the terms used to elicit the requirements given by the client through drawing tools. Wireframes are the backbones of the project and the prototypes are the end projects representation. Prototyping :  Prototyping is a middle to high fidelity representation model used to evaluate a product without …

DEFINATION: Root Cause analysis is a technique to identify the root cause of risk, defect so that solutions can be devised to reduce or eliminate them. ELEMENTS: 1. The Fishbone Diagram A fishbone diagram (also known as an Ishikawa or cause-and-effect diagram) is used to identify and organize the possible …

  #1 – Must have excellent presentation skills  A BA has to facilitate workshops, or give presentation to stakeholders or project team. Thus, BA must have excellent presentation skills. #2 – Must be excellent at time management   A BA must have excellent time management skills to ensure that the project …

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 …

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 …