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

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

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

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

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

Great intructor! Very easy to understand and organized!

Just amazing to see how you work so efficiently. Thanks

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 👍🏻

I like the centered area approach

i am glad to have come across your channel.

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.

Really great content! Thanks so much for this.

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

Thank you!

very useful, thank you!!

Very Helpful. Thank you!

Excellent!

Really helpful! Thank you

This is great!

Nice tips, thank you

Thank you so much for this!

Awesome video. Short and to the point. I have a somewhat unrelated question. Is that a tv behind you or how did you have such a smooth way of interacting with your screen? I have tried several times but often encounter issues when filming a presentation against a tv-screen.

Thanks

Great video! Is there a free version of visio for download?

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.

Excellent

Great Video !!!

Very useful for me

What about MS Project? Do you think it matters as well? One other question... what do you think are the top 5 diagrams needed for a BA in the day to day? Just want your opinion on this. Thanks!

it was very useful

Brilliant

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.👍😁

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

Good video!!

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

Great video! Love the insight. Keep it up! 👍🏼

Hi very nice and crystal clear information, one question though, what if the org you work for doesn't buy the license for their people to work on visio, how to learn it then, coz everyday practice make a huge impact on your learning right

I would love to hear more from you about how you build your flow charts and effectively diagram your Visio canvases. Please reach out or do a video on that.

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

Emal, I would like to request you, Can you please make a video for any banking domain project tutorial(As a BA) ?

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

Do you have a course for these tools as well as different techniques for a BA in one?

Do you recommend requirements management software for a product development team with a few BAs, UX designers and QAs?

May I know the Job role of BA in ERP Business.And technical knowledge required?

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 🙏

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Good video for a BA learner, Question - What is Canvas & how to build it, is it MS Word or you build using Power apps

So interested, I want to pursue this specialization. I'm just a beginner BA BLOCK is there any guidance that can help me?

I'll be studying Business analytics(more data-oriented) and project management-IT. Can I work as a business analyst(management role) upon completing these courses? as I'll have knowledge of data and management?

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

Hello how to master visio could you suggest any resources or plz make videos on it

I work for a finance company working on the implementation of new products and features for the workforce. We typically use DevOps to detail and plan out the User Stories etc but I find this to be a constraint having used Requirements and Solutions documents in the past to evidence what the ask and the delivery is. Does anyone else have to co tend with this scenario?

How do I create a gigantic canvas on Visio?

Hello BA Blocks, very nice Video and explanation But i Just want to know that is Business Analyst easy to learn than other software fields.

I'm interested in learning how to maximize my use of visio

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?

Thank you for this… also for a Business Analysts is it essential to learn Power BI and Tableau along with MS excel and MS Visio? Which one is more important Tableau or PBi?

To an extent it hardly understand entity models (so creating it sometimes leaves me with questions) which makes me have a lot of issues preparing databases as well....something just doesn't click for me and I neeeeeeed to get it together

HI ,CAN EXPLAIN WHAT IS THE ROLE OF BUSINESS ANALYST IN REGARDS TO AZURE DATA FACTORY, ETL TOOLS

Sba?

just a copy paste to move from visio to word?

Google docs, sheets and Zoho tool set are also good than MS.

Please how can I be connected to you ?

Hi Sir, I want to upgrade myself from Test engineer to Business analysts.. your videos help me a lot. Thankyou. Can you please tell me that can I buy macbook air M1 and will it be compatible to use for business analysts tools, sql, power bI and tableau , because I see windows apps not compatible with mac. So Eagerly Waiting for your reply.

And if we know only c++,is there any role of c++in business analysis???

I do all this stuff in Confluence + draw.io

As a BA. how much tech skills do you need to be successful? As in understanding coding languages, and computer science? Surely, if you're telling businesses what to do with their IT systems, you must need to be quite confident with IT?

You sound so Canadian

is visio still a thing - i think miro and mural has taken the shine off miro. I have visio but hardly ever use it as its not a progressive tool my stakeholders like to see

Hi, I am working in retal Banking domain. I want to do business analysis, but while going through online job opening they are demanding experience and background from IT CS engineering. Kindly guide is business analysis worth for me.

Putting everything on one sheet confuses everybody, zooming out in scrolling left to right

in short....USE KISS principle...."Keep It Simple Stupid" :P

Yeah, but now you have to navigate this mess of a canvas to find what you are looking for..

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?