B-a-Analyst

  It has always been a questions from customer, on what's the customization extent of SaaS and where one should approach PaaS services in Oracle universe. After working into this domain for 3+ years and having multiple iterations into multiple projects and tons of pre-sales in past few years this has brought me a good level of clarity to the extent where customers are happy to know the point when they should switch to PaaS. Understanding and practicing industry best practice should always be best practice for an organization as that helps to manage that for long run. As best systems are those which requires minimal of manual efforts to maintain. SaaS Customizations Page composer OTBI reports Custom Workflow - BPM Page Composer: For certain applications one can use Page Composer to configure application page components, such as page content and layout for other users.Here are the changes one can make using this tool: Add, move, delete, show, and hide fields ...

As the title says it's not just about analysis or scrum but it also has art in it. I been thinking to write on this topic for pretty long time, but as the saying goes "There's a right time to do the right thing" and nothing suits better then the time where am elevating a step in my career. In my experience of working into multiple hats as Scrum master, Business Analayst, Consultant, Customer success and most importantly a project advisor, I have learned a cocept practice in scrum as well as art a very hard way. i.e. Learn, Unlearn and relearn, the concept states you learn a skill with time that evolves in market so you have to step back un-learn the concept but hold onto logic and re-learn the latest evolution in market. Art goes the same way as no art is same, you can copy a art but it cannot be exact similar to the original one, so says the artist. So, as an analyst i have evolved from .Net, Java to Oracle solutions in my career and I still keep learning my way...

There a quote by an anonymous author, "A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well". We all are driven by our psychological mindset. And our psychological mindset is a collection of our observations during our upbringing, this is one of the reasons why everyone behaves differently. But have you ever thought we as a human have an ability to change our mindset just by changing our perspective to things and learning new methods to achieve peace and goals in life. Similarly, is the project and it's team members everyone has their own way's and methods of doing the task and we can never have everyone on same page from day one. So a Scrum master, Project Manager, Business Analyst role being a change managers is to drive this behavioral challenges and keep the team streamlines to project goals and to resolve any disputes amongst the team not by escalating it but just by observation and by driving them to anew direction of mi...

This has been a pressing topic for any Business Analys / Project Manager while prototyping or while advising a solution design. Design thinking is about being into customer shoes and trying to identify if the applied approach is feasible or logical in nature for en customer to use it. Also, principels of desing thinking helps to review and desing the solution is a better way which can indirectly increase acceptance ratio. According to human psychology a good design is not glamorous, it's more of easy to use for the user. Desing thinking is more over a lean process. steps to be followed for design thinking are as below: Understand/Empathize Define Ideate Prototype Refine/Test Understand: During this phase being a client advisor individual should try to understand the pain points of current system/process. Individual should build empathy for the user while performing this phase. Techniques which can be used are; Understand the audience: Try to understand the stakeh...

IIBA enlisted certifiactions a BA can go for with 5+ years of experience IIBA Fees (International Institute of Business Analysis) Membership: US$55/year - 3887.20 CBAP® (Certified Business Analysis Professional) - $450 - 31804.33 Application fee: $125 - 8834.54 Exam Fee: $325 - 22969.80 Prerequisites: Complete a minimum of 7,500 hours of Business Analysis Work experience in the last 10 years. Within this experience, a minimum of 900 hours completed in 4 of the 6 BABOK® Guide Knowledge Areas, for a total of at least 3,600 of the required 7,500 total. Complete a minimum of 35 hours of Professional Development in the last 4 years. Provide two references. The CBAP exam consists of 120 multiple choice questions and must be completed within 3.5 hours. Formulated from the BABOK® Guide, exam questions are both scenario and case study-based. This is a computer-based exam taken at a Prometric test center. To be admitted to the exam, your IIBA Profile Name must match your governm...

We have known multiple documents and plans used during project management like scope creep method, product backlog, charts, BRD, FRS and SDD. But to keep a track of project and deliverables we need is a tracker. WBS i.e. Work Breakdown Structure provides a detailed breakdown of tasks, resource requiredness and effort estimation. Depending upon organization how one prepares it i.e. tool used can differ. Commonly used tools are Ms Excel, Smartsheet & Google sheets. With reference to workbreakdownstructure A work breakdown structure (WBS) is a key project deliverable that organizes the team's work into manageable sections. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) defines the work breakdown structure as a "deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team." Dividing complex projects to simpler and manageable tasks is the process identified as Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Usually, the project managers use this m...