The future state is defined as the future state of a business process or the solution.
It is used to visualize the future state of the process or the solution when the needed changes have been implemented.
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Am I a Business Analyst or a Project Manager ?
Many Business Analysts are also responsible for managing projects in their organizations.
Even though their official job titles are Business Analysts, they might also act as project managers in the organization.
So are they Business Analysts, Project Managers or both … Read the rest
What is the current state ?
The current state is defined as the present state of a business process.
It is used to understand why the change is needed and how that change would affect the organization.
A solution cannot be made to a business process … Read the rest
How to prioritize requirements
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
Why you need to trace requirements
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.
Because a requirement … Read the rest
How to effectively collaborate with your stakeholders
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
Who is a Stakeholder ?
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
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.
As a business analyst, … Read the rest
What is a flow chart ?
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
What is a Document Review ?
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