Most BAs tend to have a natural preference for either textual or visual models. Requirements specifications ideally include both types of information, as different stakeholders learn in different ways. Visual models don’t have to be complicated. Unless your organization uses formal UM ...
One of the main tasks business analysts are required to engage in is defining the current state of the business. Processes are a key part of the business and should be continually analyzed for bottlenecks or lapses that may have built up over time. In improving the current state, business ...
Business process modeling is mainly used to map a workflow so you can understand, analyse and make positive changes to that workflow or process. Usage of diagram helps you to visualize this process and make better decisions. Use the below table to quickly navigate to different technique ...
A list of business analysis techniques is pretty extensive and from year to year new techniques appear, or become more formalised, and are adopted by business analysts all over the world. Some techniques become more popular and are widely used and some are used rare or only when a specific ...
This article focuses on the redesign of an existing business process rather than just improving it incrementally. Most Business Process Management (BPM) efforts focus on making small improvements using Lean/Six Sigma, plus other techniques on an existing process. These improvements range f ...
In modern era each and every organization whether it be private or public will have a clear idea on the business process. Creating a business process model is essential in the effective functioning of an organization. A business process model includes the activities of an organization whic ...
A variety of tools are used to assist in the requirements gathering process. Each type of tool provides alternative means to illustrate, explain and specify exactly what must be delivered to meet the business goals. They simplify the understanding of requirements by application of the trui ...
Business process modeling (BPM) in systems engineering is the activity of representing processes of an enterprise, so that the current process may be analyzed or improved. BPM is typically performed by business analysts, who provide expertise in the modeling discipline; by subject matter e ...
A lot of bloggers and technologists like to talk about Ruby as if it can’t perform on-par with other dynamic/interpreted programming languages; however, these critics tend to rely on specific benchmarking techniques and ignore the overall performance profile of the language. They also ...
Postgres has a great ability to show you how it will actually execute a query under the covers. This is known as an execution plan and which is exposed by explain. Understanding this tells you how you can optimize your database with indexes to improve performance. The hard part for most us ...