Business and systems analysts (BAs and SAs) fill an interesting role in IT organizations: They straddle the gap between the users and the IT department, taking an active role in the development of IT solutions without performing much of the hands-on work of the users or the IT team. BAs and SAs often catch a lot of heat from the IT department for “not knowing what we do,” and users often point the finger at them when the IT department’s solution is well executed but does not meet their needs.

Navigating this interaction between IT and users can be a huge challenge for BAs and SAs. But hiring someone to fill that job can be equally challenging. While technical know-how and experience are a big help, it can be difficult to determine what will be useful for the job and what won’t. The same can be said for understanding the business end of things. Here are 10 tips and interview ideas to help you pick the best BA or SA candidate for the job.

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I enjoyed the evening so much seeing another good friend of mine getting married, with a guy who seems to be truly her other half during Adam and Eve’s era.

Their jump of joys!

If they are the male and female version of each others, we are the Yin and Yang!

Dress: Phenomenal, RM 170++
Accessories: Earrings, Necklace, Price unknown, bought N years ago
Hair Do: RM 25, Ipoh Salon
Make Up: RM 40, Ipoh Salon

Do I look like a model for a “just-gave-birth-excuse-to-eat-a-lot-became-very-fat-and-people-thought-already-pregnant-with-second-baby” kind of lao cha poh???

Papa, the poor husband of the lao cha poh

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Already at new place for a week, today is the starting of the second week, and I really can feel the challenges ahead.

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Elise and papa is sleeping soundly in their rooms. Mama is updating blog.
It’s not easy to find a leisure time like this to sit down quietly and rearranging thoughts and put them nicely into sentences.

Elise is down with fever and running nose since last Sunday. We do not know the exact reason for the sickness but I think it would have caused by bringing her out for lunch and dinner under the hot sun and air con.
Poor Elise, she was breathing with her mouth when it was so difficult for her to inhale with her blocked nose.
At times, I could hear her breathing with the sound of the mucus. I feel so much guilty for not feeding her more breast milk, at least could provide her better immune system.

Last week, papa bought a long desired Canon 50 mm 1.4 prime lens for me. I couldn’t help taking pictures all the times. Also take the chance to finally setup a blog for her called, ‘pour Elise’ or ‘for Elise’, from ‘mama & papa’.

Elise happy Elise fever

As for myself, I am changing job and new role soon. In fact, last day with XeerSoft on next Monday. Will be leaving this second-family of mine after a good 3 years and 6 months! Joined XS on 5th June 2007.

Was happy on the first day for:

1) 5 mins to reach office
2) NO traffic jam
3) FREE parking
4) NEW notebook – an Acer Aspire 5583NWXMi
5) lunch LESS than RM5
7) TRAINING via concept – more training to come
8 )left office around 8pm (might be a bad point for others but its something wonderful for Ongki, because I really love to work!

I am still enjoying a 5 mins and traffic ‘jamless’ cum free parking to office. Notebook is renewed and just participated in a training on using Flash Builder, something I wish to learn so much.

Leaving office at what time is no longer my concern because I can just come and go anytime. Even I don’t go also not an issue, work from home :D

I am actually more than just happy with XS. But I am moving on, changing a new environment, a new job description and function, a new challenge.

 

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2007

I really can’t accept it!!!!!!

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Not from husband though. From a sweet young boy that I have no idea why did i would cross my life path with him. Funny but it’s part of my love life that i will never forget because it’s sweet…awww…

Created on 24/01/2009

Agreement

xxxxx here by agree:-
1. Not to be in bad mood when he don’t understand the conversation other is having.
2. Not to nag Elaine
3. Don’t force Elaine to do the thing she refuse/dislike to do.
4. Don’t make Elaine angry
5. Don’t act ego to Elaine
6. Sweet talk to Elaine as much as possible
7. To teach Elaine how to sweet talk @ argue
8. Can only make Elaine pujuk xxxxx once a while

Elaine here by agree:-
1. Not to ignore xxxxx even if in a group of people
2. Don’t keep secret from xxxxx
3. Treat xxxxx as close friend for 4 years
4. Make xxxxx feel he part of her life cycle
5. Share her life and problem like last time
6. Teach xxxxx chinese

No more secret between both. Secret between both of them kept off limit to other, if must tell can only reveal to anyone that each don’t know and not to the person who both know. Both agree to remind each other if none of the above promise met.

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How can I get the date and time to append on one line of the text file.
1) Try net time \\%computername% |find “Current time” >> output.txt

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Been thinking sometimes, what happened to Ongki that she started to neglected the deary blog.
Well, not that I don’t have thoughts to blog, it’s because I do not have time of my own anymore.
What am I doing everyday? Try to list down here, with priority descending

1) Elise – taking care of her after work

2) Husband – chit chat

3) House cleaning

4) Online – check company mails, facebook – see what’s friends posted

6) Mybrandedbags.com – upload products

7) 40′ Sharp Aquos + Astro

Now…these are all I do…weekdays after work, normally 1,2,4,7 and 6 sometimes.
Weekend, 1,2, a lot of 3, 4, quite some of 6 and some 7.

Elise has just recovered from chicken pox. It is still a wonder to us as of how she got infected.
We didn’t really go out a lot, except during the weekend, and nobody touches her.

But glad the spots aren’t a lot, but quite some covering her scalp, making her mother feel extremely upset about it. Thank god she is recovering fast and be my healthy, naughty and active baby again :D

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Since it is practically impossible to find two documents that would have the same hash value, a document’s hash, often referred to as a “thumbprint”, can be used to uniquely identify this document. If you are to develop a document repository, such as a database of image files, and want to prevent the same document to appear in your database twice, you can store the document’s thumbprint together with the document itself. This way every time a new document is to be added. you can easily check whether it already exists in your database by computing the new file’s hash value and looking for a match in your database.

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