Executive Business Analysis

You have to perform, Market Analysis, Competitor Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Personas, Strategic Vision and Feature Set, Prioritize Features, Use Cases, SDLC, Storyboards, Test Cases, Monitoring, Scalability.

Application usability is actually the quality of the system that makes the system useful for its end users. System's usability is good if it is capable of achieving users' goals. Personas are basically social roles, performed by any actor or character. It is derived from a Latin word meaning character. In marketing terminology, it represents group of customers/end users.

It all depends on the type and scope of the project. Also a life cycle model is selected on the basis of organizational culture and various other scenarios to develop the system.

It all depends on the end users. In such scenario, we develop the system with a user's point of view. Who are the end users, what they require etc. Personas are basically social roles, performed by any actor or character. It is derived from a Latin word meaning character. In marketing terminology, it represents group of customers/end users.

SaaS means Software as a Service. It is related to cloud computing. It is different from other software as you don't need this type of software to be installed on your machine. All you need is an Internet connection and a Web Browser to use it.

It is the alternative solution or activity in a use case that should be followed in case of any failure in the system.

Extends are actions that must take place in a use case.

The two diagrams are Use Case Diagram's and Collaboration Diagram.

There are many but I mostly use, Rational's Tools, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point, MS Project.

INVEST means Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Sized Appropriately, Testable. It can assist project managers and technical team to deliver quality products/services.

Business Analysis is the process performed by the Business Analyst.

I've worked on, Functional Specification Documents, Technical Specification Documents, Business Requirements Documents, Use Case Diagram etc.

It stands for Unified Modeling Language

These are the unexpected situations or results in an application.

It is important, because it makes the system easy to understand for developers and all concerned people.

Use case model shows sequence of events and stream of actions regarding any process performed by an actor.

There are primary and secondary actors. Primary actors start the process and secondary actors assist them. Moreover, actors can be of four types such as Human, System, Hardware and Timer.

The pair-Choice Technique is used to give priority to various items in a process. It is mainly used when distinctive stakeholders are involved in the project. This technique asks from the group to compare each item with the other and select the one having highest priority.

They are three in number, namely as Unexpected Delighters, Performance Attributes and Must Have Attributes.

The two documents are FRD (Functional Requirement Document) and SDD (System Design Document).