Unraveling the IT world
A Data analyst is anybody who is responsible for converting data into visually pleasing and easily understandable formats.
Organizations generate tons of data but it is difficult to make sense of this data in the unstructured format in which they … Read the rest
ETL stands for Extract, Transform and Load which is the process of moving data from the source database to the destination database.
The ETL process involves 3 steps which are extract, transform and load.
These steps involve extracting the data … Read the rest
Technical debt, code debt or design debt is what happens when the Agile development team takes design shortcuts to speed up their product delivery.Â
These shortcuts might lead to a need to refactor the code in future. This refactoring project … Read the rest
Business analysts use document reviews to understand the work products
Work products are a single deliverable, a part of the deliverable, or work in progress.
For a completed work product, the goal of the review is to remove defects or … Read the rest
A flowchart is a visual depiction of a process or system .
Flow charts can be as simple as a diagram drawn with a paper and a pen or as complex as a computer generated complex diagram.
Flowcharts are also … Read the rest
Elicitation is the way in which information is derived from the stakeholders to discover the requirements for the solution while collaboration is when two or more people work together to achieve a common goal or objective.
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A stakeholder is defined as anyone who is interested in the problem and its potential solution.
The stakeholder’s interest might be positive or negative based on how they feel about the problem, but regardless of their personal feelings they are … Read the rest
An effective Business Analyst has to have many skills.
Some of these skills might be hard skills such as technical knowledge, while other skills might be soft skills such as people skills.
As a business analyst, you would have to … Read the rest
A requirement is anything that is needed or wanted.
Requirements can be conditions, features and functionalities that are needed to solve a problem, respond to external forces such as a competitor product or fulfill some regulatory constraints.
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As a Business Analyst, one of your main tasks would be eliciting requirements.
Requirements elicitation is the defined as the gathering of information from the stakeholders to identify the solution’s requirements.
Once the solution’s requirements have been gathered, they would … Read the rest
