 | Business Analysis by Don Yeates
Buy new: £22.42 / Used from: £18.50 Covers the jobs you will undertake as a Business Analysis (you will need other books for some of the details - see my other picks). Published by the BCS to support the ISEB Business Analysis Diploma.
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 | A Pragmatic Guide to Business Process Modelling by Jon Holt
Another book published by the BCS - I have not read this yet, but it's on my shelf waiting.
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 | Writing Effective Use Cases (Crystal Series for Software Development) by Alistair Cockburn
Buy new: £14.49 / Used from: £14.48 A great book that will help you structure your Use Case documents and use the appropriate language for the desired level or audience.
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 | Writing Better Requirements by Ian Alexander
Buy new: £18.55 / Used from: £15.14 A great partner to the above to help you write the requirements that do not fit neatly into Use Cases or where Use Cases do not fit in your chosen methodology.
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 | Analysis Patterns Reusable Object Models (OBT) by Martin Fowler
Buy new: £32.29 / Used from: £20.00 Based on years of research, this book proposes generalised solutions to common business problems that need to be solved in business analysis.
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 | UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) by Martin Fowler
Buy new: £15.67 / Used from: £12.50 An easy introduction to UML. By applying modelling to analysis you will save yourself lots of writing and by learning more of the de facto modelling standard you'll have a wider vocabulary to use.
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 | Learning for Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and Its Use Practitioners, Teachers and Students by Peter Checkland
Buy new: £17.39 / Used from: £17.23 Soft Systems Analysis may be applied where there are people problems to understand. This book provides an easy to read account of how to apply SSM and why. By the authors of the technique.
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