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  • Agile Methodology in SDLC

    Agile is a set of rules. 4 are agile manifesto and 12 agile principles. Agile is an incremental and iterative way of software development. The Agile methodology is a project management approach that involves breaking the project into phases and emphasizes continuous collaboration and improvement. Teams follow a cycle of planning, executing, and evaluating. The… Continue reading

  • How to Gather Requirements as a Business Analyst

    Gathering and analyzing requirements is a crucial part of any project, laying the foundation for its success. As a business analyst, it’s up to you to ensure that the requirements are well-defined, documented, and ranked in order of importance to meet both the business’s and stakeholders’ needs. We’ll discuss the stages of requirement gathering, practical ways… Continue reading

  • What Is Wireframing?

    A wireframe is a 2-D skeletal outline of an app or a webpage. Wireframes provide a clear overview of the layout, page structure, user flow, information architecture, functionality, and intended behaviors. Since a wireframe typically represents the initial product concept, the color, styling, and graphics of the product are kept to a bare minimum. One… Continue reading

  • How Business Analysts can manage project risks

    Risk management is used to spot areas of uncertainty that could affect value. Risk management analyzes and assesses those uncertainties, and develops and manages the associated risks. If risks are not identified and managed effectively they could adversely affect the value of the solution. If adequate controls have not been put in place, the business… Continue reading

  • Waterfall Methodology in SDLC

    Let’s see how software is developed in the waterfall method. It is a classic way to develop any software. Lets take an example of a mall. We do not ask the construction worker to start digging on the first day. It comes at a later stage. First the analysis is done. Where would be the… Continue reading

  • Emergence of Business Analyst

    The BA role came into existence in 1995. Why there was no BA role earlier and why all of sudden demand of BA role arise. IT revolution took place when the size of computer was reduced. People started bringing new technologies in their offices. Somebody had to do requirement gathering for these requirement and those… Continue reading