LESSON 13 OTHER DEVELOPMENT TOOLS FOR BUSINESS ANALYSIS

Business Analyst

• needs to use certain BA tools to succeed in his/her organization.

• tools can be further classified into tools required for modeling and diagrammatic representation.

1. Jira and Confluence

2. Trello

3. Rational Requisite Pro

4. Balsamiq

5. Pencil

6. Microsoft Visio

7. Google Docs

8. Smart Draw

9. Wrike

10. Version One Lifecycle

Other Development Tools for Business Analysis

Jira and Confluence

Are compelling collaboration tools.

Every business analyst must be familiar with the basics of this for effective project collaboration and requirements sharing.

The documents will be stored in a centralized repository in this.

All the business stakeholders can see the status of projects and communicate with diverse teams using tools like this.

Trello

Another effective project collaboration tool.

Uses a Kanban-style approach for managing and prioritizing tasks.

With this, a business analyst can easily track his tasks, project plans, and progress of key activities to be completed.

Rational Requisite Pro

A must-have tool for every BA working on requirement gathering and elicitation.

It has a very robust architecture that can easily manage requirement documents that are dynamically linked to a project database.

It is very easy to use this tool for managing requirements.

Balsamiq

A leading cloud-based tool for designing wireframes.

This is an excellent tool for business analysts working on new product design, brainstorming, and sketching new business ideas.

This tool helps the business analyst to communicate his vision for the product to the relevant stakeholders.

It is one of the leading business analyst tools for BAs.

Pencil

A free-to-use and open-source tool for prototyping and creating easy mockups.

Creating a prototype for the user is often crucial for business analysts to help customers understand the final product’s look and feel.

Any inputs and changes based on customer feedback can be incorporated in the prototype to ensure the best final product for the customer.

Microsoft Visio

A leading tool for project management and business modeling.

It can be used to create use case diagrams, project flowcharts, project schedules, process flow charts, and data models.

Google Docs

A powerful document sharing and collaboration tool for business analysts.

Business analysts can share all types of files and documents with stake holders using this.

Smart Draw

Business analysts often use this as a business analytics tool to simplify their project management work.

Features:

• It helps automate activities like - add, move or delete shapes

• You can integrate it with tools like Microsoft Office, Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive. Plugins can increase functionality.

• It helps to maintain security, as you can install it behind a firewall.

• It supports 100 languages for creating diagrams.

Wrike

It is a real-time work management tool for business analysis purposes. It helps to decrease the overall project analysis cost by storing information centrally.

Version One Lifecycle

This is one of the best business analysis tools concerning its unique feature of integration capability with enterprise application and open-source software development tools.