Many people get confused about what they really do because while their job title says one thing, their actual responsibilities might include tasks that are traditionally performed in other roles.
It doesn’t help that many organizations have creative job titles … Read the rest
A burndown chart is a graphical representation of the rate at which the user stories in an agile project are being completed.
The work that is yet to be completed is shown on a vertical axis (y-axis), while the time … Read the rest
Value stream mapping or material and information-flow mapping is a lean technique that is used to analyze, design, and manage the information that is required to move a product to the customer.
Value stream mapping uses different symbols to represent … Read the rest
Many aspiring Business Analysts would like to know what a typical day in the life of a Business Analyst is like, so here it goes.
I would go through what a typical my work day is like :
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Whiteboarding is the use of a dry erase board in a meeting to explain concepts and ideas. The dry erase board is used to quickly draw, modify images and text.
Whiteboarding sessions are very useful in brainstorming, troubleshooting and collaborating … Read the rest
An entity relationship diagram (ERD) or entity relationship model, is a visual representation of people, items and events in an information technology (IT) system.
The ERD uses data modeling techniques to describe business processes and act as the basis for … Read the rest
As a Business Analyst, you would regularly have to analyze the root cause of various identified problems. One of the common tools that is used to perform the root cause analysis is called a fishbone diagram.
A fishbone diagram, a … Read the rest
A decision tree is a tool that uses a tree-like model to analyze decisions and their possible consequences.
Decision trees are usually used in decision analysis, to help identify a plan of action that is most likely to reach a … Read the rest
As a business analyst, you have to be able to understand the root cause of the business need in order to elicit the right requirements.
One common method of analyzing the root cause of the business need is called the … Read the rest
A Quality assurance analyst is anyone who is responsible for checking the quality, performance, any reliability of the organizational systems and processes before they are deployed to the organization.
After the scrum development team has finished building the software, they … Read the rest
