Business Analyst Tools (Tools I Use as a Generalist Business Analyst)

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Every practice has its own tools and business analysis is no exception. You might be surprised to find that the tools that we generalist business analysts need for most of our daily work are actually quite simple.

This is my video response to the community question that came to us from one of the aspiring business analysts in our community 2 weeks ago: "What are some of the tools that you use as a generalist BA in real life".

The bottom line is to focus on becoming effective with the simplest tools possible.

LEARN HOW TO RUN EFFECTIVE WORKSHOPS

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[FeanorsBest]

If you are adopting an agile methodology such as Scrum, than two of your key artefacts become product backlog and sprint backlog, and you definitely need a tool to manage, prioritise and trace your requirements for efficient management of your team and project/product. For this, I have experienced Jira. It is very effective in terms of visibility, provides right set of metrics such as velocity, burn out charts, control chart, eports such as Issue created vs Resolved Issues, etc. There are other similar tools in the market, and they have become increasingly important in your IT projects. Visio is very effective, but there are also alternative and easier tools to learn and apply, such as LucidCharts. If you know and become familiar with one particular software, it is easy to switch to another. Kudos for the video, by the way 👍🏻

[afrochic]

You have essentially described how to use Visio like Miro! Brilliant! So simple! I have struggled with Miro… but really good with PPT.

[AbrewOfMusic]

Love the canvas vs. tab reasoning and completely agree, this is my big concern with tools like Notebook.

[fredrickandrew]

Thanks for your advice. Apparently it is very helpful and constructive to my future understanding of business analysis.

[AymanHaidar]

Brief and straightforward. Glad to see that I am very well accustomed to using these tools. Maybe I should pursue a career in Business Analysis. Thanks a lot.

[din]

Thank you for this tutorial! Very well organized and straight to the point. Well done. Thank you.

[norpriest]

Great video.

I got a job as insurance business analyst (for digital solutions)

Please recommend me where to learn end to end process/project in insurance domain

Thanks a lot sir 🙏

[OluwatosinOladipo-pjue]

Thank you so much, this is so insightful and helpful. I just started my Business Analysis Career, I would really appreciate your advice and help on Visio and other tools. Many thanks.

[anggafebrian]

Thank you very much sir.... This Video Very Important for me, Regards From Indonesia.

[pasof]

Just amazing to see how you work so efficiently. Thanks

[Diiiiiiiiiime]

Awesome Video! Do you have any videos explaining how to perform this one-pager method in Visio?

[julie_chen]

i am glad to have come across your channel.

[BolaAdesope]

Good stuff Emal. Clean, clear and concise video. Let’s chat over the phone

[josephojo]

I would like to learn how to create Entity Diagram, and High-Level Document Designs. Do you have videos on them?

[The_Cry_Baby]

Thank you sir for this interesting presentation. Could you please propose some interesting Books about How a business analyst should generally do his job? This could be very useful for me as i am currently learning the basics of the job.👍😁

[thuynh]

Great intructor! Very easy to understand and organized!

[alexypolivany]

Some Visio alternatives- Miro and lucidchart. Tanks for the video

[Baidaba.la.strada]

Loved your video, you have a new subscriber...
I learnt python, power bi, SQL, excel and now I'm thinking about azure... but the road map is not as clear as I would like it to be. I want to land a job as a bussines analyst but I'm a little bit lost. This video is 4 years old, is visio still relevant? or should I learn other tools in order to land a BA job? Thanks

[abhijeetsingh]

I see a lot of BA talking about SQL, modelling with R/python, and some visualisation tools say Power BI or tableau. How essential is to have those skills? Are these pre requisites for a fresher, in getting a job as BA?

[cgourdin]

Really great content! Thanks so much for this.