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How to increase your Confidence and Self-promotion that adds the value to the Organisation and Self-growth.  1) Create an accomplishment list and Read out Loud.  #Why-you-are-remarkable Jot it down on a paper and read it aloud.  Writing down is essential in Cognitive connectivity to real world. 2) Listen to feedback from friends and colleagues.  Write a mail / google forms to understand the feedback in you last project worked and don't fall out on critical feedbacks, that are so important to ladder up yourself.  3) Build a confidence backpack.   Yay, prepare a list / any sort of artifacts that always lists your achievements (not only an official works) Discuss this with your friends, increases the value of yourself and may be a sparkle of your friends’ career, self-improvements.  Eventually building a society of self-valuation.  4) Try out physical poses to help you feel more confident. Speak to yourself at ...

SpecBook Do you know what SpecBook is? It is specifications book. Spec Book - Requirement Elicitation This is traditional method of requirement elicitation technique. This is also widely used now. SpeckBook will contain list of questions about a function, feature or any component. It is a drilled down approach. You should not end this process till no further question can be asked. This can be also said as granular approach. In the SpeckBook, it is not like all questions have to be posted on your client. On basis of discussion and requirement gathering few questions can be answered by you and some questions will answer by itself. The Missed questions can be always posted at client. Questions can also ask to multiple stakeholders to get detailed / required information. Things to look on while preparing the questions a. Questions should be simple and understandable. b. It should be mapped to any of the Business requirements. c. It should not cross the s...

Be specific In Requirements      When stakeholders are be very clear in their need, Business Analyst should not consider that it is final requirement and write it down on paper. There is still more specific in requirements. Ask more questions to business users to make requirements more specific. The other trap is you should identify the correct user to question on requirements. To be more specific, i have stated a below example for better understanding Need identified is : I need a invoice report every month. Other Questions to be asked to stakeholders are : Why you need, When you need, How you need, Which time you need, In which format you need and still more. Drill down to become the requirements more specific. Bring Your Testers Early In project     Every requirement should be testable, reliable. For each requirement translate in to a test case. Quality is very important in meeting the Business need. Success Factors Of A Project ...

Wire frame using pencil drawings                                                                                                Why Wireframe is Important? The timely feedback from the project stakeholders is most important. The early feedback from stakeholders will boost the satisfactory solutions to the problem identified or goal in a project. Never expect anyone to read through hundreds of pages of text only specifications. Instead, the better is to provide any visual representation to which they can refer and react or post any suggestions or comments for better solution which will be delighted and expected for the goal achievement. Wireframes provide an excellent solution to this problem in a web based platform / window based in a desig...

What is Project Charter?                 The Project Charter is the document that presented about the baseline of the project. This mainly communicates and states a project manager with written authority to work. What will be communicated in a Project Charter?                                 The Project charter is the statement that defines the In scope and Out scope, the objectives of the Project, Reason for undertaking the project, participants (stakeholders) in the project, Resources estimated, communication plan, risk mitigation plan, roles and responsibilities of each stakeholder, the benefits of this project upon completion. What is the purpose of Project Charter? Ø   Reasons for undertaking the project Ø   Objectives of the proje...