What to say when you are asked about gathering requirements in a BA job interview: learn not to fall for the trick and discuss how would you conduct analysis activities on the job. Links to more resources included.

What to say when you are asked about gathering requirements in a BA job interview: learn not to fall for the trick and discuss how would you conduct analysis activities on the job. Links to more resources included.
An overview of essential business analysis techniques: immersion, process analysis, asking questions, root cause analysis and business modelling.
Business stakeholders will have needs, wants, problems and pain points. They will provide information. Requirements will come from business analysis.
Requirements don't come from business - they come from business analysis. This next video episode deals with the myth of "gathering business requirements".We gather information from stakeholders, analyze it, discover, investigate, compare, research and analyze some more, and then synthesize…
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