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 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 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.

It is used to help the stakeholders easily … Read the rest

What are behavioral skills ?

Everybody has different ways of responding to situations, these responses are defined as their behavior.

Effective business analyst should have certain behaviors, these behaviors are defined as behavioral characteristics.

These behavioral characteristics exist at the core of every business analyst’s … 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.

Conceptual thinking is defined … Read the rest

What is Elicitation and collaboration ?

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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What is Change Management ?

As organizations grow and expand, their business processes might change to accommodate this growth.

These business process changes might include the implementation of a new system, business policies changes or a total restructuring of their organogram.

Some of the reasons … Read the rest

Interface analysis for business analysts

An interface is a connection between two or more elements or solutions.
Interface analysis is used to identify where, what, why, when, how, and for whom information is traded between solution elements.

Most solutions need one or more interfaces to … Read the rest

What is SQL ?

I have previously written about the top 5 skills that an IT Business Analyst should have and SQL is one of them.

SQL which is pronounced S-Q-L or sequel stands for Structured Query Language (SQL).

SQL is supported by all … Read the rest

Survey and questionnaires in business analysis

Business analysts use surveys and questionnaires to gather business analysis information such as information on customers, products, policies, and cultures from the stakeholders.

Surveys and questionnaires are used to present a set of questions to the stakeholders, whose responses are … Read the rest