What is visual thinking ?

Business analysts have to be able to communicate complex ideas and models in ways that the stakeholders can easily understand.

Visual thinking is defined as the graphical representation of systems or processes.

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What is decision making ?

To be an effective business analysts, you must be able to understand the principles involved in making a decision, and assist the stakeholders in making better decisions.

When stakeholders are faced with having to select an option from numerous different … Read the rest

What is creative thinking ?

Creative thinking is the inducing of new ideas, concepts, approaches, and associations between existing ideas and concepts.

It is a flexible approach to problem solving by questioning the standard approaches and inspiring new ideas and transformations that are suitable to … Read the rest

What is analytical thinking ?

A competent business analyst has to have both analytical thinking and problem solving skills in order to effectively analyze problems, identify opportunities and other necessary changes which would deliver on value and work with the stakeholders to understand the impact … Read the rest

What is conceptual thinking ?

During the course of the project a large amount of information would be generated.

Some of this information might be disconnected so you would have to apply conceptual thinking skills in order to understand this information.

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What is requirements validation ?

To find the right solution that would fulfill the identified business need, the requirements need to be gathered from the right stakeholders.

Once these requirements have been gathered, they have to be analyzed and documented to fully understand them.

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What is Requirements architecture ?

All requirements used in a solution need a structure and this structure is the requirements architecture.

Requirements architecture is used to ensure that all the requirements are well understood and meet the objectives of the organization.

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What are design options ?

Design options are used to decide on the solution approach,to recognize opportunities which can enhance the business and create design options that achieve the desired future state.

When a solution is being designed there might be numerous design options that … Read the rest