Let us observe some user story examples here. It helps us to provide overview how to write user stories. Feature: Refund item Scenario: XYZ returns a faulty item Given XYZ has bought a item for so and so amount And he/ she has a receipt When he/ She returns the item Then XYZ should be refunded with so and so amount Scenario: User enters correct user name and password Given that I am on the sign-in page When I enter my user name and…
What is Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)? Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) is a document, we can prepare in simple excel format also, it maps and traces client requirement with test cases. It captures all requirements given by the client/ Captured in BRD or FRD/FSD. The main goal of Requirement Traceability Matrix is to verify that all requirements are checked via test cases so that no functionality is unchecked during Software testing. Why Requirement traceability matrix or RTM is required? A Requirement traceability…
What are Scrum Meetings We discussed and observed what is Scrum and Scrum Roles, now we look into some other important terms and terminology. That is what is Sprint and what are Scrum Meetings and what team discuss in Scrum Meetings. What is Sprint Zero? What is Sprint Planning? We can say Sprint is nothing but Time Frame. Team discusses and decides what the prioritized items are and how much effort required achieving that. For example 3 user stories/ Requirements…
What is Scrum? Scrum: Scrum is not a methodology, Scrum is a framework. That means it provides opportunity to work as per the project needs or requirements with cross functional team to reach the project goals. It helps us to interact with the people easily. Scrum is very popular now days and we can say without putting Agile in your resume you will not get even interview calls also. Don’t worry and do not think too much to understand what…
Business Analyst Job Description Insurance Domain General Accountabilities: – The Senior Business Systems Analysts will provide technical support and advice to the Client Relationship Managers, Service Managers and/or Operations Executives on business processes and systems issues in both run mode and development of new processes/support. Sr.BSA may also become key resources potentially available to support new clients through block conversions. – Analysts are liaisons between operations and other areas such as Information Technology, Finance, Marketing, etc. to ensure sound business…
Business Analyst Job Description in Health Care The Business Analyst is required to have good experience in implementing software systems in healthcare domain. He/she should have an experience in creating requirement specification and testing and has good communication skills. Duties and Responsibilities: Identify software product needs and create requirements in the form of business specification and use case documents. Closely work with the client and the software development team in developing the product. Carry out the testing from the end…
Business Analyst Job Description in Payments Should be able to participate in bank meetings to understand complex requirements or to explain functionality Should assist the project manager and project test manager of delivery projects Is responsible for creating the documentation of high level requirement (HLR) according to the project process Is responsible for any change in functional scope Should present change request to project manager Is responsible for approving team implementation plan together with project test manager and project architects…
Business Analyst Job Description BFSI Business Analyst Job Description BFSI Act as an SME in area of Financial Crime Compliance for all Corporate and Income events Should have strong understanding on various Data Governance model and Data Quality Exception handling of automated interfaces Identify, capture, and track voluntary corporate actions Exception handling on events transactions Coordinate with IT support teams in case of any IT related issues impacting BAU Building core knowledge in team during set up and shaping activities…
Business Analyst Job Description: IT Let us observe the sample Business Analyst Job Description. The Business Analyst (BA) acts as a liaison between either a development group and an external client/vendor, or a development group and an internal business sponsor. The BA is responsible for the collection/analysis, authoring, and communication of requirements in order to satisfy the client/sponsors needs. Depending on the nature of the project, the BA may also undertake a combination of project management, technical implementation and testing…
What is JIRA Tool? What is JIRA? Initially I was also thinking what is JIRA and how to use JIRA, JIRA is a project management tool. It can be used to track the requirements status like what is the current status of the requirement assigned to user whether it is open or closed or under processing. We will discuss in detail what is JIRA and advantages of using JIRA? Here I am not going to explain how to use JIRA…
What is an API? (Application Programming Interface) API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface. In simple words we can say it is the communicator between two software applications. It allows software applications to talk each other. Every day we are interacting with the multiple applications which are integrated with other applications. Example : Amazon, Flipkart, Phonepe etc.. It means every day we are using an API but the thing is we do not know that this is API. Let…
What is Root Cause Analysis? Root Cause Analysis is very important it helps us to understand on below. You may have the doubt that what is root cause analysis and who performs the Root cause Analysis, Let us observe below. What is the issue? How to prevent these types of issues in future? Why this issue occurred? What steps could be taken to not to occur this issue? What are the preventive actions? Getting into the roots helps in removing…
What are the Advantages of Waterfall Model: What are the Advantages of Waterfall Model? Simple and easy to use Easy to manage – each phase has specific deliverable’ s and a review process Phases are processed and completed within scheduled time Works well if requirements are very clear It is one the easiest model to manage. Because of its nature, each phase has specific deliverable’s and a review process. In each phase we will get to know what to deliver and…
What is Sprint in Agile? Sprint Zero: In this phase all the stakeholders will join in meeting, and we have high level requirements in this phase. Based on the requirements Product backlog will be created Product backlog will have user stories (user stories means Requirements.). Once Product backlog is prepared, there will be 3 activities performed (a) along with core team – Scrum master will conduct story point estimation session. In this session team will discuss on prioritized requirements, how…
What is feasibility study? The requirement is feasible or not. Whether it will impact any existing functionalities. Whether this requirement may cause to any performance issues. Whether this requirement fits in the current system or not. What are the dependencies on this requirement? What are the integration points? Any impact on integration points? You can discuss with internal and external stakeholders to understand the requirement clearly, if we not understand requirement clearly, then there is a chance to miss out…
Who is Project Manager? Let us discuss and observe who project manager is and what he does in project. Till now we have discussed the role and responsibilities of Business Analyst in project. And we may have get doubt as “Business Analyst is handling the project and he is involving in every phase of the software development life cycle. Business Analysts are usually active members of project teams and many business analysis tasks are very similar to project management tasks,…
What is GAP Analysis? What is the GAP Analysis and why it is important? GAP means the difference between Current state and future state. Who performed GAP Analysis? This is a process performed by Business Analysts and Project Managers. The difference between the current process and future process is known as GAP. This help us to understand where we are (Current State) and where do we want to be (Future State)? This helps us to measure investment of time, money…
Let us discuss and observe what Business Analyst does if Business Analyst works in Insurance domain. As we discussed earlier Business Analyst works in multiple domains, For Example: Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Real estate, Healthcare etc. A Insurance Business Analyst is a business analyst who works in the Insurance domain. BusinessAnalyst on insurance domain also performs the standard business analyst tasks such as Requirements Gathering, Requirements Elicitation, Prepare Documentation, verification, validation and coordinate and support during the UAT in Insurance domain perspective. Business…
Let us discuss and observe what Business Analyst does if Business Analyst works in Banking domain. As we discussed earlier Business Analyst works in multiple domains, For Example: Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Real estate, Healthcare etc. A banking business analyst is a business analyst who works in the banking domain. BusinessAnalyst in Banking domain also performs the standard business analyst tasks such as Requirements Gathering, Requirements Elicitation, Prepare Documentation, verification, validation and coordinate and support during the UAT in banking domain perspective. BusinessAnalyst…
How to draw Use Case diagram Business Analysis – Use Case Diagram UseCase diagrams plays very important role, these diagrams help to understand the relationship between user to user and user to system. Like what is the relationship with the user and what are the actions done by the User and how user wants to interact with the system. The focus of this diagram will be on “how external interfaces” (End users, Support systems, Database and internet connectivity to third…
Business Analyst – JAD Session JAD sessions is also one of the important elicitation technique used by the Business Analyst to gather and understand the requirements. Let us see what is JAD session, Joint Application Development (JAD) is a process used to collect business requirements while developing new Software systems for a organization. The goal of a JAD session is to gather in subject matter experts/Business analyst or IT specialist to bring out solutions. A Business analyst is the one…
What Is the Average Business AnalystSalary? Are you planning to switch your career from Non_IT to IT. And are you thinking, you can reach your financial goals by switching career as a business analyst. Let us observe what salary business analyst gets and what parameters help to grow the salary. The most recent salary survey of practicing business analysts was conducted by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) More BA Experience Usually people who are having more experience they will…
Let us discuss what is INVEST in Agile The test for determining whether or not a story is well understood and ready for the team to start working on it is the INVEST acronym: Independent — The story should be independent. Negotiable — Can this story be changed or removed without impact to everything else? Valuable — Does this story have value to the end user? Estimable — Can you estimate the size of the story? Small —Is it small…
Agile Business Analyst Agile Business Analyst . Once a project is kicked off, Business Analyst does the requirement Planning, then conducts various requirement gathering sessions and analyses the requirement. Finally, the requirement is listed as “FEATURE LIST’. This Feature list is drafted by Business Analyst discussed with Product Owner. This feature list will have all enhancements and existing features. Existing features will present if it is migration project. From the Feature list, Business Analyst identifies the Epic and breaks them…
what is a product owner in agile? Product owner plays important role in Scrum Team, Below are Scrum Roles: Product Owner(PO): He will decide what needs to done in this sprint/project and he is the responsible for managing the product backlog. He will be the responsible person for product like how product should be and all. He interacts with Business Analysts and Customers. This role may be played by BA or any person who is having strong knowledge on product and…
The scrum development team plays important role in Scrum Team, Below are Scrum Roles: Product Owner(PO): He will decide what needs to done in this sprint/project and he is the responsible for managing the product backlog. He will be the responsible person for product like how product should be and all. He interacts with Business Analysts and Customers. This role may be played by BA or any person who is having strong knowledge on product and who works with end…
What is UAT (User Acceptance Test) UAT (User Acceptance Test) Business Analyst suppose not to actively participate in testing part but, Business Analyst do support and perform testing. What is UAT What are User Acceptance Tests or what is uat? User Acceptance Test is very important. Usually client will do the UAT. Once development completed and all approvals are in place, then we will release changes to client for Testing. Before releasing to client, we will do the end to…
How to Conduct Stand Up Meetings? Stand up meetings are an important event that is used in the Scrum methodology. Their primary purpose is to keep the Scrum team updated on the team’s progress. The stands up meetings are usually held daily and they are allotted short time frames i.e. 15 minutes or less. What is a Stand Up Meeting? A stand-up meeting is a short meeting that is held on daily basis. Usually this meeting will happen when day starts. …
How to Become a Business Analyst Here whatever I mentioned is based on my own experience; I feel it may help to someone who are preparing for BA and trying to get job as a Business Analyst. A BA is in charge of understanding a business’s changing needs, and providing technological solutions to improve its processes and systems. Thus, a business analyst is often thought of as the link between the business and IT departments. Let us discuss in-detail below…
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Credit or Debit card payments: Usually we will do the payments through credit card and Debit Card. Some people may think, just we are giving the card to the shop owner or we are entering details on the e-commerce website then shop owner is getting the money. But how this payment is happening and what the background process for this payment is, let us discuss in detail. But how this process is happening and this merchant will get money. Let…
Let us discuss about some simple domains now to get some domain knowledge; I feel this will help you to get some idea about domain knowledge. Let us discuss about Website design and development and how it will be taken place. As we are reading blogs and accessing multiple websites on our daily life, we know what is website and how it looks like and what purpose wee will browse the websites. Let us discuss in depth what are the…
What is Domain Knowledge : Let us observe what is domain knowledge, when you are reading the job description of Business Analyst, most of the companies will mention as domain knowledge is mandatory. We may think what domain knowledge is and how it is relevant for Business Analyst. Once we had gone though the Job description of the Business Analyst, below questions may come in our mind. How to get Domain Experience or knowledge and from where I can get? …
Business Analyst Interview Questions Below are some questions which can be asked during interview. I mentioned some of the important questions to prepare before attending the Interview. It does not mean that interviewer will ask below questions only during the interview. Please note that, there can be many more questions. I have listed some usually asked questions and usually I ask these questions for to 3 years of experienced business analysts. I tried to mention best answers, but you should…
Top Blogs to improve knowledge as a Business Analyst. Let us see here some important or top blogs and websites to refer to get more knowledge on Business Analyst. Usually I keep on search to identify some blogs and websites to improve my knowledge, while searching I got some websites and blots, after seeing that I felt it is worth to share with you all. I gone through so many websites and I felt below mentioned websites will help us…
Business Analyst Role in Testing Business Analyst Role in Testing As I mentioned in the main page, in a software company there will be Testing team. In industry terms we call it as Quality Assurance (QA) team or Quality Control (QC) team. Most popular terminology is QA or testing. Let us try to understand what is Business Analyst role in Testing. My intention of putting ‘testing’ knowledge here is to make Business Analyst aspirants to know about testing not intended…
Scrum Master Role in a Project Let us observe who is Scrum Master and what Scrum Master Role is in a Project. Scrum team includes of Scrum Master, Product Owner and Development Team. Let us discuss some important roles of the Scrum master’s in project: The primary responsibility of the Scrum Master is to build a Team. And he works closely with the team to deliver the project without bugs and he ensures to deliver on time. To achieve…
Customer Due Diligence and Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (ECDD) Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (ECDD) Enhanced Customer Due Diligence: Any financial institution (Banks and NBFC’s) has to follow the KYC process when they are opening any relationship with the customer (Customer on boarding/ Account Opening). This is part of the global efforts to comply with Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) laws, to protect the business from fraud and bad actors. Customer due deligence (CDD) and Enhanced Customer Due Diligence (ECDD) During…
How to write User stories User Stories and how to write user Stories When we are working on agile process (methodology), user stories are very important. Because we have to write requirements as a user story to understand easily. To write user stories first we need to understand who the user/Actor is and what his role in application is and what actions user will perform by using this product. User story should be understandable And User story should be Testable.…
Business Analyst Role in AML and Kyc Project The Global Markets AML and KYC Initial Due Diligence Team exists to help protect the Firm from Regulatory and Reputational risk. The KYC Initial Due Diligence team is responsible for the reviews of Clients in accordance with Financial Crime and Anti Money Laundering procedures in adherence of standards set by the UK and US regulators. The Team acts as a First Line of Defense for the Firm’s KYC Review process. The Team…
Requirement Elicitation Techniques As a Business Analyst we need to understand the requirements clearly, to understand the requirements as a Business Analyst we need to use techniques to understand the requirements. Let us observe Business Analyst elicitation techniques. Elicitation is the process of digging out the information from the stakeholders. Requirements Elicitation serves the foundation in documenting the requirements. Let us see here below: Brainstorming Document Analysis Focus groups Observation Workshop JAD (Joint Application Development) Interview Prototyping Questionnaire (Survey)…
Business Analyst Challenges Here I am listing down the real time challenges faced by the Business Analyst. There can be other challenges but here I am mentioning few which are facing by the Business Analyst in day to day life. I believe it may enough when you are trying a fresher, one or two experience. Frequently changing requirements Freeze requirements Coordination with developers and testers Change management-with respect to cost and time lines Drive UAT phase – on time…
Business Analyst Role in Product based company: Let us observe Business Analyst Role in product based company, When Business Analyst is working in product-based company, then he needs to understand the product of the company, like how it works and functionality of the product. Then only he can able to provide the suitable solutions to client. If Business Analyst not have the enough knowledge on his own product then he can’t convince the stake holders. Because of this stake holders…
Documents prepared by Business Analyst Let us see here documents prepared by Business Analyst during the project. Business Analyst will prepare so many documents as per Company standards; here we will see what the documents are mostly created by the Business Analyst during the project life cycle. These documents prepared by business analyst to fulfill the various project needs and cater to audiences belonging to different spheres of a project. As we know Business Analyst primary and most important role…
Stakeholder Management/ Analysis Who are Stakeholders: Who are involving the project directly or indirectly are called as stake holders. Ex: Development Team, Testing Team(QA), client, SME’s and Architect. Stakeholder management is very important to gather the requirements. And as a Business Analyst we have coordinate and arrange multiple meetings and interviews with multiple teams to understand the requirements and to deliver the requirements as per planned schedule. As a business Analyst we are responsible for certain things like, Investigation…
Tools used by Business Analyst Tools Used by Business Analyst: Business Analyst needs to use some tools during the project to make stake holders to understand the requirements clearly. Let us see some of the commonly and important Tools Used by Business Analyst: A complicated BA role, Business Analyst needs to gather the requirements from the client and he needs to ensure that no requirement should be missed. He should prepare the specifications very carefully, because development team will…
Teams and Departments in Company I feel it is important to understand different teams at high level.There will be different teams in a software company, let us see Teams and departments in company in high level. Pre-sales Team: Sales, marketing team: Presales Business analyst team and sales heads will interact with different clients to get the software project; this team is backbone of any company, because without this team will not get projects, without projects company can’t survive. Will discuss…
BRD Vs FRD Let us discuss BRD Vs FRD herre and how to to prepare the BRD and FRD. Documentation is the most important aspect for any Business Analyst. The documentation is useful to understand the requirements and the detailed discussion about new features and change request if any. Business Analyst will prepare many different types of documents. Some of the important ones are listed below – Business Requirement Document (BRD) User Stories Use Case Specification Document (USD) Functional Requirement Document…
Agile Methodology in Software Development Life Cycle Now a day’s most of the companies are looking for Agile methodology because it is light weight and faster delivery. We can say if we not mentioned Agile methodology in our resume we may not get calls from the interviewer also.Let us discuss what is Agile methodology and advantages What are the differences between Waterfall and Agile Methodology? What is Agile Methodology in Software Development Life Cycle Minimum documentation Agile Methodology is one…
What is Waterfall Methodology or Model Here we will discuss about traditional software methodology Waterfall and who will involve in each phase. Waterfall or Sequential methodology: Here next task will start once previous task completed only. We will see here in detail, what are the advantages and disadvantages of this methodology. First we will observe what are phases involved here and how it works. Software Development Life Cycle is a framework having defined set of activities performed in phases…
Business Analyst Skills / Skills required for Business Analyst Many people are looking for business analyst role, here we will see what are the skills needed for business analyst role to prove as a good business analyst. Before going to learn about Business Analyst, I feel it is good to know Business Analyst Skills A good team player: Business analyst needs to interact with different teams and coordinate for the development activities, it is very important to a good…
Let us observe Business Analyst Tasks Business Analyst key role is to Analyze, communicate, Document and validating the requirements. Let us discuss Business Analyst Tasks and what he does during the project/ Business Analyst needs to listen carefully when discussing with stake holders and should not interrupt when they are sharing about issues / Problems or requirements. As a Business Analyst we may speak with the SME’s and end users to understand exactly what the requirement and exactly what client…
Can I become a Business Analyst: Generally when we are looking for BusinessAnalyst career, our first question in our mind is “Can I become a Business Analyst and what are the skills needed to become a BusinessAnalyst. Here we will look into the BusinessAnalyst skills what are needed. Yes, anyone can become BA irrespective of knowledge and skills, but we need to learn and understand who BA is and what are the skills needed to prove as a good…
Defect/Bug Life Cycle Defect/ Bug Life Cycle Defect life cycle also known as bug life cycle. Defect life cycle/ Bug life cycle is the journey of bug from initiation to closure during its life time. It may different from organization to organization and may project to project. Business Analyst/ Scrum Master will monitor till closure of the defect, it may different from organization to organization. New : During testing of the application if tester find/observed any issue then tester will raise…
What is Requirement What is Requirement and Types of Requirements. Requirement is a need of customer. Business Analyst primary role is to understand the need of a customer and provide software solution to meets the customer expectation. By seeing description of the requirement we can say that, gathering requirements are very easy. But in real scenario it is very difficult to gather and understand the client requirements. Because every business channel has their own requirements and organization requirements may differ…
What is the Role of Business Analyst Who is Business Analyst/ Role of the Business Analyst in Project: Business Analyst is a communicator between internal and external stakeholders. Business Analyst needs to understand the Business requirement and analyze the same and provide suitable solution to Client. Business Analyst can be able to understand the requirement from client and he should be able to explain the same to Technology team to deliver proper requirement. Customer explains in functional way what…
