Business Analysis
Roles
Modeling
Elicitation techniques
Happy Mix :)
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Set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liason among stakeholders in order to uderstand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization, and recommend sollutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
What is Business Analysis?
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His role is to manage the process and techniques that will elicit the information needed from the business and its users to facilitate the successful development of a sollution. Key "to do's": *understanding the structure, relationships & rules within organization *identifying potential for improvement *ensuring all stakeholders have a common understanding of the business environment *requirements elicitation needed to support solution development and its documentation
What is the role of Business Analyst?
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One modeling is part of enterprise analysis and provdes baseline business architecture against changes that are measured. It positions the project within the goals, constraints, and mission of the funding organization and it facilitates root cause analysis. The other guides the requirements elicitation by providing unified view of information to be managed, business processes, workflows, use cases and business rules. Once complete, BA integrates user requirements with this model, developing a complete package to guide solution design and construction.
What is the difference between AS IS and TO BE modeling?
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*Reviewing AS IS: Research, Observation, Verbal Protocols *Survey: Interviews, Questionaires *Facilitated: Focus Groups, Brainstorming, Joint Application Design (JAD) *Product Based: Product Evaluation Trials, Prototyping
What are the most common elicitation techniques?
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Defines the work to be accomplished during requirements elicitation, documentation and validation. Also called mini-project plan, that includes: activities the team will perform, scope, resources, schedule and budget estimates, procurement plan, communication plan, risks, deliverables
What is RWP (Requirements Work Plan)?
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*Vision and Scope Report *Requirements Work Plan *Business Requirement Document
What are the key requirements documents?
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One leads during the analysis phase and supports during all other phases, while the other is accountable for overall project coordination and the succesful implementation of all deliverables on time, to budget, and matched to requirements.
What is the difference between Business Analyst and Project Manager?
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*Organization: Organization model, Business Interaction model, Location model *Strategy: Goal Model, Impact Model *Process: Functional Decomposition, Event Model, Use Case, Workflow Model, Process Model, Activity Diagram, Relationship Map *Information Communication: Data Flow Diagram, Logical Data Model, System Model
What are the most common models?
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It is a synthesis of all Information that has been elicited and documented to date. It is a major milestone deliverable, often representing the completion of the analysis phase of the project in a typical project management methodology.
What is the BRD? :)
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Why - do you want to do it? What - do you want to do? What the process looks like right now? Who - will be using it? Which - functionalities are mandatory and desired? When - shall it be implemented?
What are the 5 "W" questions that every BA shall ask before starting any project?
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Onr is a documented condition or capability required to solve a problem or achieve an objective, while the other details how the condition or capability will be met, providing design criteria such as prescribed materials or dimensions.
What is the difference between a requirement and a specification?
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Clients, End users, Business analysts, System analysts, Testers, Business sponsor
What are the participants in general business analysis?
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*Documentation of employee procedures *Business process reengineering *Extension of current business procedures to the internet *Implementation of upgraded software package
What are the examples of AS IS model usage?
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*Text *Structured tables *Graphical models
What are the three documentation techniques used in the BRD?
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It is a project management tool, that structures tasks- or deliverable-oriented groups in a hierarchical activities and defines the total scope of work to be done. Helps to plan resouces, budget and schedule; negotiate, defend estimates and monitor the progress.
What is WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)?
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*Regulatory *Business: strategic, tactical, operational User *Solution: functional, non functional, transition (from AS IS to TO BE) *Specification
What are the different levels of requirements?
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In other words, the guardian of the project.
Who is the Project Manager?
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*New business area (new product, e-business) *Business process reengineering *Extenstion of current business procedures to the Internet *Implementation of upgraded software package
What are the examples of TO BE model usage?
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*Cathegorization of requirements *Organization of requirements into related groups *Exploring relationships amoung requirements *Examining requirements for consistency, omissions, and ambiguity *Prioritization of requirements based on customer needs
What activities are accomplished during requirements analysis?
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It is a general-purpose, developmental, modeling language in the field of software engineering, that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system.
What is UML (Unified Modeling Language)?
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One places boundaries around the solution by clearly delineating what project stakeholders expect the sollution to do and not do. The other one defines what work the project team will and will not perform over the course of the project.
What is the difference between sollution scope (BM) and project scope (PM)?
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His main role is to find sollution.
What is the role of Business Analyst?
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*Desk checking - used to provide feedback about defects and queries *Walk-throughs - used to solve interpretation confliscts and uncover deficiencies in analysis and documentation *Peer reviews - used to find as many defects as possible *Inspections - used to gain approval of BRD and models by stakeholders
What are the four techniques for validating requirements and models in the BRD?
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One is like "shell collecting, taking what you see, more reactive, less proactive" while the other is like "archeology, planned, deliberate search, more proactive, less reactive"
What is the difference between requirements gathering and requirements elicitation?
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It is a gradual, progressive increase of a project's scope without clear control. Occurs when one or more stakeholders add additional (sometimes minor) requirements that collectively result in: *expansion of scope *cost overruns *schedule ovverruns
What is Scope Creep?
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