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The Business Analyst (BA) provides an important role - liaison between business stakeholders and the technical team (software developers, vendors, etc.) in order to ensure that business needs are reflected in any software solution. Despite the importance of the job, there is currently no book specifically designed as an on-the-job handbook for the working BA to make his life easier. "The Business Analyst's Handbook" solves this problem by providing a useful compendium of tools, tables, lists, and templates that the BA can use on-the-job to carry out their tasks. For example, a BA might be preparing for an interview session and use the book's checklist of interviewees to verify whether there is appropriate coverage of business stakeholders. Or a BA might be asked to review some diagrams and refer to the Glossaries of Symbols (organized by diagram type) for guidance. Or the BA may be asked to prepare textual requirements documentation and refer to the Business Requirement template for a list of artifacts and table of contents. Whatever a BA needs, he can be assured that with the handy "Business Analyst's Handbook" he will have the necessary information right at his fingertips.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Solid Reference Material
30 April 2009
Format:Paperback
This book has solid reference material that experienced Business Analysts can utilize on virtually any assignment. This is not the best book for a new Business Analyst and is really geared towards a practitioner that understands their craft and appreciates additional guidance. Coverage of techniques and models is very comprehensive.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
The perfect combination of theory and practice.
26 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
In my experience most technical books are either overly dry and are useful as a reference tool or completely theoretical leaving it up to the reader to determine application modes. Howard Podeswa does a great job of blending the two. He also does this in the context of one of the most important and least discussed role - the Business Analyst.
Over the years I have had the privilege to be part of many software teams. We have had great successes and a few failures. One thing that is a constant is the impact of the Business Analyst role on project success. The The Business Analyst's Handbook provides a complete tailorable approach to facilitating, organizing and disseminating business information that is sure to have a positive impact on any team.
This is a book that should be near and dear to any professional Business Analyst.
Over the years I have had the privilege to be part of many software teams. We have had great successes and a few failures. One thing that is a constant is the impact of the Business Analyst role on project success. The The Business Analyst's Handbook provides a complete tailorable approach to facilitating, organizing and disseminating business information that is sure to have a positive impact on any team.
This is a book that should be near and dear to any professional Business Analyst.
36 of 47 people found the following review helpful
What happens when you have an engineer write a book
9 April 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The author says in the introduction that he began his career in Chemical Engineering and attempted to create a book similar to Perry's Chemical Engineer Handbook. At first I thought it was a neat idea to have everything I could ever need to know as a BA in one place. After muddling through the first couple of chapters, I noticed that this book contains way *too much* information in one place. It's like trying to read an encyclopedia cover to cover. This book may have its place in very rigorously structured environments where BAs need to quickly reference something, but as a comprehensive starting point for Biz Analysts it fails miserably. I think the biggest failure of this book is that it attempts to formalize everything too much without first getting across a hi-level overview of what a BA is supposed to learn from a particular section.
As a BA for several years, I can say that I found nothing in here of practical value. The organizations in which I have worked did not place much value of formal structure of analysis, so that may be why I do not find this book worthwhile.
Plus, the writing style is dreadfully dry. As my title suggests, when an engineer writes a book about soft skills this is about what you might expect. I'm a former engineer myself and have first hand knowledge of the low value placed on communication skills by many otherwise competent engineers (of course there are exceptions). I got more techniques for analysis out of Project Management books than this one (like the portable MBA series book on Project management) and I believe there are much better books out there but they probably don't have Business Analyst in the title.
As a BA for several years, I can say that I found nothing in here of practical value. The organizations in which I have worked did not place much value of formal structure of analysis, so that may be why I do not find this book worthwhile.
Plus, the writing style is dreadfully dry. As my title suggests, when an engineer writes a book about soft skills this is about what you might expect. I'm a former engineer myself and have first hand knowledge of the low value placed on communication skills by many otherwise competent engineers (of course there are exceptions). I got more techniques for analysis out of Project Management books than this one (like the portable MBA series book on Project management) and I believe there are much better books out there but they probably don't have Business Analyst in the title.
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