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These are some slides on Bussiness Analyst training i got from Craig Brown www.betterprojects.net . A very good read.

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This is the second part to the previous post regarding the reasons IT project’s fail.In the previous post i mentioned the general reasons,which most of the IT projects from small sites to enterprise applications have in common.
The second post focuses on the little things. Small misconceptions that if you add them up can make or break an IT project.
All team members have responsibilities within a project, clients, employees (developers in this case) and managers.

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I’ve been to a couple of IT Project Management and Business Analysis interviews myself, so I thought that it would be a good idea to share the experience. Most of the interviews roughly are the same and most of these I get in most of the interviews I have been. I am not going to try and answer these questions since I think It’s knowledge specific and it just comes down to what you believe and what you have experienced until now. Search my site, you will find a lot of the answers in my posts and articles. However feel free to add more in the comments.
Am not going to say how the interviews really start etc, it is usually some form of ice-breaker, tell us about yourself, “we will go through your CV and ask questions on the way etc, it varies.
The most usual questions I get are:
Business Systems Analysis
1. What is requirements analysis and why is it useful?
2. How would you document requirements?
3. What are the typical sections of a requirements document?
4. Given this case studies (you will be given a small scenario) write a use case for it?
5. How would you prototype this scenario (base don the above)?
6. Is usability important and why? How do you test it?
7. What tools/techniques do you use during Business Systems Analysis?
8. How do you run a Requirements Workshop?
9. How do you keep clients focus in a Requirements Workshop?
10. Why are functional specs important? Write an outline of a functional spec? Does this contradict agile beliefs? if yes why?
11. Given this scenario build a Swot/Pest /Rich Picture diagram?
12. Given this scenario build an Entity Relationship diagram or a DFD or a UML activity diagram.
13. Changing requirements how do you deal with the problem?

Project Management
1. What is project/feature/ scope creep and how to you deal with it?
2. Why do projects fail? What are the usual reasons?
3. As a summary describe the Agile Manifesto?
4. What is Scrum/XP/Chrystal/RUP etc? What is it’s main methodology?
5. Agile vs Structured project management what would you recommend?
6. PRINCE2 and it’s benefits to a project?
7. What is the Project board? What is a business case?
8. How does PRINCE2 handle risk?
9. How do you monitor your project?
10. Describe project XYZ was it a success or a failure and why?
11. Have you ever had a failed project?
12. How would explain the agile principles to your client?
13. Agile project management and fixed cost projects. Is it possible?

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