Nowadays we are using technology almost everywhere in our work to make things easier for us. A business analyst is not an exception. He also has to use different tools for the presentations and documentation so that it will be well communicated across the team, client and stakeholders. Let us have a look at what type of different tools a business analyst uses in his day to day work life.
To track the performance business and ongoing efforts of the team, there are several business analysis tools available in the market. For different purposes, different tools have to be used.
At BA Centric we offer training for the widely used tools by business analysts across the domains.
- Microsoft Office -It is a pack of applications like MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-Powerpoint For Documentations and presentation purposes. Microsoft office is widely used as it gives almost all the features for documentation and presentation.
- JIRA- JIRA is a task management tool. Everyone across the team can access the documents uploaded by the business analyst. They can track and updated by the respective teams. That is how everyone comes to know about the project status without mail communication and meetings.
These reports are customizable and you will get a quick overview regarding the performance check.
- Balsamiq – It is a Wireframe or mockup tool – To create Use case diagrams. The basic use of this tool is to give a brief idea about the screen design or the UX design to the developers. This is also accessible across the team. It is very simple to use and interactive so that with minimum technical knowledge anyone can use it easily.
- LucidCharts – This is another wireframing tool that gives some more interactive features for creating the framework of the project.
Apart from the above-mentioned tools we also give a brief idea about other similar tools used by different industries.