A Business Analyst acts as an intermediary between business stakeholders and IT teams to help define requirements, assess solutions, and ensure project goals align with business objectives.
Analytical thinking, communication, stakeholder management, documentation, data analysis, and problem-solving are key skills.
Requirements are gathered through stakeholder interviews, surveys, workshops, observation, and reviewing existing documentation.
A BRD is a formal document detailing the business needs and objectives that the project aims to fulfill.
Changes are managed through a structured change management process, ensuring that impacts on timelines, resources, and costs are assessed before approval.
Agile is an iterative approach to project management, focusing on customer collaboration, responding to change, and delivering incremental value through sprints.
The Waterfall model is a linear and sequential approach where each phase of the project must be completed before moving on to the next.
Agile is flexible and iterative, while Waterfall is rigid and sequential. Agile allows for more frequent feedback and changes, whereas Waterfall follows a defined path.
Stakeholders are managed through regular communication, sprint reviews, and ensuring their feedback is incorporated in each iteration.
A use case defines how a user interacts with a system to achieve a goal. It is essential because it helps to understand the system's functional requirements from an end-user perspective.
Common tools include Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Visio, Trello, and Excel.
SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. It is a framework used to assess these aspects in a business or project.
A gap analysis compares the current state of a process or system to the desired future state to identify any deficiencies or areas of improvement.
A workflow diagram visually represents the steps in a process, illustrating how tasks flow from one stage to the next.
Conflicts are resolved by prioritizing requirements based on business objectives, conducting further analysis, and negotiating with stakeholders.
A feasibility study assesses whether a project is viable from technical, financial, and operational perspectives.
Requirements are prioritized based on factors like business value, urgency, stakeholder needs, and technical feasibility.
Through validation techniques like user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensuring the solution aligns with the documented business requirements.
Understand their concerns, communicate the benefits of the change, and involve them in the process to gain their buy-in.
Share a specific challenge, the approach you took to address it, and the final outcome.
