Does the business analyst interact with clients directly? If so state the reason for the same?
What are the industry and professional standards followed by business analyst?
Proffessional standards for BA is set according to the company standards .
Industry standards that have been set for the BAs to follow are OOAD principles and Unified Modelling Language (UML). This is a common language used by business analysts all around the world to draft the functional requirements.
Why excellent communication skill is essential for a business analyst?
The BA is the vital link between the development team and the business users. The BA must clearly and precisely determine a black and white requirement from the business that defines the requirem...
In order to comunicate well with the stakeholders,clients,technical staff to perform the businesss operations effectively.
Business analysis can be defined as a sequence of activities to determine the business needs of an organization and to fit the required solutions.
Business analysis is sequence of activities to be implemented to assess business requirements and fit the solution to steer the organization towards success path. It can be conducted at different leve...
What is the educational qualification required for a business analyst?
There is no specific qualification for a business analyst. Well, if you are a management graduate it is an added advantage since you have they have better communication skills. One important thing a B...
I dont know here the education is the matter,only it matter is how good we are at things and even b.sc person or mba person both does it the same way,only key point here is learning the things and grapping them and understand and mostly good communication.
Who uses the output produced by business analyst?
It is used by: Business: Act as a documentation repository for their business process and what they expect from the system being built. The BRD's are signed off by business. Dev team: They would r...
The output will be used by the Both IT and Non-It People,as IT people use this document as key for the building of the application and Non - It people use those document where they can see prototype of their application.
What are the problems solved by business analysis?
Primarily communications problem.As BA bridge the gap between business community and technical community. So, they work as a skilled professional who captures requirements from business (non-technical...
As a BA, The most critical part is in gathering requirements (we should understand them very well from a Business User /stake holder point of view!!!)Reason: There might be a chance for the whole proj...
Mention some of the tools commonly used by business analyst?
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Answered by: AshishJuwa
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Member Since Feb-2009 | Answered On : Mar 5th, 2009
There might be various tools that you as a business analyst would be using depending upon the work environment.
The primary tools are:
MS-Office (Especially Word)
MS-Visio (for visualizing the concepts, creating diagrams)
But a lot of bigger organizations have been using Rational Software. Rational software licensing is expensive so you might not find it being used everywhere.
Rational Requisite Pro (for Requirement Management)
Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest (For change management)
I have also found that some places like using MS-Sharepoint, telelogic DOORS and other tools for document collaboration. I would say, keep a working knowledge of MS Sharepoint, at least.
Sometimes you might end up being a BA com QA. As such, it is nice to have a working knowledge of creating Test cases, using Load Runner, QTP etc.
Except for these tools if you have knowledge of RDBMS, Oracle, SQL, different operating systems, some OOP, it is always a plus.
Most of the business analysts use following Tools:
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Visio
- IBM Requisite Pro
- BPMN 2.0
- SharePoint
Offcourse most important tools are communication skill and interpretation power.
As mentioned out by some of the incumbents here, Business Analysis is more to do with documentation of the requirements and how efficiently the expert communicates information across to the team devel...
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Member Since May-2008 | Answered On : May 31st, 2008
Dear Friends
I have read most of the answers and I am impressed the way people resolve the Issues...But I am sorry to say most of the people forgot that they are attending this question in a Business Analyst interview.
The meaning for this question is as a business analyst how do you resolve issues?
not only in your team but the problems faced while you were at clients place( while gathering requirements)
Lets take an example of improper requirements: If two department people are giving the requirements and if they have some common resources to use...so one department people wants the application in some way and the other department wants in otherway...If they are adament on their statements and wants the application to be developed in their way....which is not feasible ...then we have to follow these steps
1. Explain them clearly what we can not build an application until and unless they agree and stick to single opinion.
2. If they still do not understand tell them about the time constraint. man hours wastage and money loss for their own company if they try to prolong the issue.
3. Even if they donot agree then report this issue to the your higher authority which is project manager or Principle BA to look in to this matter which he inturn speaks to the client regarding this issue.
similarly if you have any issues regarding communication and it is better you convince your client if you can use any recorder to record the requirements which you can later analyse or ask for the help of interpreter.
so these are all the steps usually a BA should follow to resolve any issue.
please do correct me if anybody disputes with my opinion.
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Ravindra Munaganti
As Business Analyst what we may face (or, what I have faced), issues could be different types e.g. Requirement/ technical issues Communications issues Difference of opinion amongst team membe...
When ever we have issues
First what is the cause fo the issues
Second what is the soulations
3rd what is the best soulations
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It depends on the project to project it is not always the same that we do interect with the clients directy,some time there will be a team whom might be interecting with the client and gives you the requirement and if have questions either we do talk with that team or our maganer.
Yes, they can interact with the clients directly, since a client can be internal like the end users, managers and supervisors within the company.