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The Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook

By : Srini Munagavalasa
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The Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook

5 (1)
By: Srini Munagavalasa

Overview of this book

Salesforce business analysis skills are in high demand, and there are scant resources to satisfy this demand. This practical guide for business analysts contains all the tools, techniques, and processes needed to create business value and improve user adoption. The Salesforce Business Analyst Handbook begins with the most crucial element of any business analysis activity: identifying business requirements. You’ll learn how to use tacit business analysis and Salesforce system analysis skills to rank and stack all requirements as well as get buy-in from stakeholders. Once you understand the requirements, you’ll work on transforming them into working software via prototyping, mockups, and wireframing. But what good is a product if the customer cannot use it? To help you achieve that, this book will discuss various testing strategies and show you how to tailor testing scenarios that align with business requirements documents. Toward the end, you’ll find out how to create easy-to-use training material for your customers and focus on post-production support – one of the most critical phases. Your customers will stay with you if you support them when they need it! By the end of this Salesforce book, you’ll be able to successfully navigate every phase of a project and confidently apply your new knowledge in your own Salesforce implementations.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Part 1: Planning and Analysis – BRD/Prioritized Product Backlog
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Part 2: Design, Development, and Testing – Iterative Cycles with Prototypes and Conference Room Pilots
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Part 3: End User Testing, Communication, Training, and Support

Part 1: Planning and Analysis – BRD/Prioritized Product Backlog

In this part, you will learn about planning and analysis activities, starting with ways to identify the right sources of requirements and use elicitation techniques to understand business needs by engaging the right stakeholders. You will learn how to utilize tacit business analysis and Salesforce system analysis skills to rank and stack all requirements, and communicate and get buy-in from all stakeholders. Finally, you will document all your prioritized requirements in a business requirement document artifact. You will also learn how to create a roadmap to deliver a set of high-level requirements.

We will address some of the key challenges faced during this phase:

  • Not being able to identify the right requirements, resulting in delivering unnecessary nice-to-have features without adding any business value
  • Due to a lack of requirements or product backlog prioritization, projects not delivering the...