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    Business Analysis : Learn in 24 Hours
    Business Analysis : Learn in 24 Hours
    Business Analysis : Learn in 24 Hours
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    Business Analysis : Learn in 24 Hours

    By Alex Nordeen

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    About this ebook

    Business Analyst position is one of the highly paid positions in Industry. It requires in-depth industry knowledge as such the spectrum of its activities are wide. It demands multi-tasking skills as tons of things would be going under his observation. If you are visual learners, then this e-book had demonstrated case studies that will introduce you to your first BA experience.


    Many BA’s are not clear about their roles in project and pitfalls to avoid. This e-book will help BA aspirants to understand various dimension of BA roles like determining project scope, requirement analysis, decision making, guiding the team, etc. This e-book gives insight on various factor that will determine how well your business or project does over time. This edition also tells you about the techniques you need to employ over a period to achieve sustainable success.


    BA profession value career experience. This e-book is a must for beginners to accumulate the experience required to qualify as an entry-level BA. This e-book will help to evaluate whether you could pursue your career as a BA or not.


    There are many e-books available on BA, and purpose of this e-book is not to replace them but to augment them to help more and more BA professionals.


    Table Of Content


    Chapter 1: Introduction


    Chapter 2: Stakeholder Need Analysis


    When Stakeholder Analysis need to be done


    Stakeholders Categorization


    Process for Stakeholder Analysis


    Important questions to ask for stakeholder Analysis


    Tips to manage your Stakeholders


    Chapter 3: Software Development Lifecycles


    Chapter 4: Requirement Lifecycles


    Chapter 5: SDLC & Waterfall


    Chapter 6: Rapid Software Development (RAD)


    Chapter 7: Incremental Model


    Chapter 8: Software Requirements Analysis with Case Study


    Types of Requirements


    Other Sources of Requirements


    How to Analyze Requirements


    Atomic


    Chapter 9: Requirements Analysis and Transformation Techniques


    Chapter 10: Presenting Requirements


    Chapter 11: Change Control


    Chapter 12: BRS VS SRS


    Chapter 13: Business Analysis process

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateOct 27, 2021
    Business Analysis : Learn in 24 Hours

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      Business Analysis - Alex Nordeen

      Chapter 1: Introduction

      Who is a Business Analyst?

      Business Analysts have emerged to have a key role in recent business scenarios. Some people think that the role of a Business Analyst is to make money for the organization, which may not be true in direct context. But indirectly, the action and decision taken by Business Analysts do leave an impact on the financial prospects of the organization.

      A primary job responsibility of Business Analyst is to communicate with all stakeholders & to elicit, analyse and validate the requirements for changes to business processes, information systems, and policies.

      A professional business analyst plays a big role in moving an organization toward efficiency, productivity, and profitability.

      Before we jump into the tutorial, we will see some basic perspective of a Business Analyst to help the organization succeed. The foremost priority for any business analyst will be to try understanding following things

      Understand what business does and how it does

      Determine how to improve existing business processes

      Identify the steps or tasks to support the implementation of new features

      Design the new features to implement

      Analyse the impact of implementing new features

      Implement the new features

      Different Business Analyst Role

      Business Analyst can be from any sector, and the role differs based on the sector. Business Analyst are classified into various categories like

      Business Analyst

      Business Process Analyst

      IT Business Analyst

      Business System Analyst

      System Analyst

      Data Analyst

      Functional Architect

      Usability or UX Analyst

      Characteristics of a good Business Analyst

      Basically, a good business analyst is judged on these four attributes

      Typical Qualities of a Good Business Analyst:

      Analytical skills- An outstanding analytical skills will separate out a good business analyst. A good part of BA role includes analyzing data, workflow, user or stakeholders inputs, documents, etc.

      Leadership skills- directing team members, forecasting budget, helping team members with the problem, etc.

      Business process and planning- Planning the project scope, understanding and implementing requirement of project, identifying resources required for the project and so on

      Technical skill- If a business analyst is in the IT sector, few technical aspect are expected to know like operating systems, hardware capabilities, database concepts, networking, SDLC methodology, etc.

      Tools of the Trade

      To make their work easier, the business analyst often depends on tools like

      TopTeam Analyst: This tool helps in providing a complete solution for requirements gathering and management

      SmartDraw: It is a graphic diagramming tool that use stencils for organizational charts, swim lanes, data flow diagram, etc.

      Blueprint: This tool produces a blue print of the project artifacts like development models, test scenarios, use cases, flow charts, etc. to ensure that everything is falling in line and as per expectation

      Survey Monkey: It allows you to send survey to stakeholders, capture their feedback,

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