Books for the Business Analyst

The concept of user stories has its roots as one of the main tenets of Extreme Programming. In simple terms, user stories represent an effective means...

Author(s): Mike Cohn
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0321205681
 

Agile and iterative methods have emerged as the most popular approaches to software development, and with good reason. Research (examined and cited in...

Author(s): Craig Larman
Paperback: 368 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0131111554
 

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck Tom Poppendieck Forewords by Jim Highsmithand Ken Schwaber *Adapting agile practices to y...

Author(s): Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Paperback: 240 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0321150783
 

Agile development methods are key to the future of flexible software systems. Scrum is one of the vanguards of the new way to buy and manage software ...

Author(s): Ken Schwaber, Mike Beedle
Paperback: 158 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0130676344
 

Apply the principles of Scrum, one of the most popular agile programming methods, to software project management—and focus your team on delivering rea...

Author(s): Ken Schwaber
Paperback: 192 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0735619937

"THe Object Primer is the best book I've read that covers the basic fundamentals of object-oriented software engineering and process. It is easy to un...

Author(s): Scott W. Ambler
Paperback: 572 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0521540186
 

This is the eBook version of the printed book. Detailed, Proven Techniques for Estimating and Planning Any Agile Project. Agile Estimating and Plannin...

Author(s): Mike Cohn
Paperback: 368 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0131479418
 

Building on its continued success this text has been revised to provide the most comprehensive, balanced and up-to-date coverage of systems analysis a...

Author(s): John W. Satzinger, Robert B. Jackson, Stephen D. Burd
Paperback: 712 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1418836122

Herb Cohen believes the world is a giant negotiating table and, like it or not, you're a negotiator. Whether you're dealing with your spouse, boss, de...

Author(s): Herb Cohen
Paperback: 256 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0553281095 

(Pearson Education) An up-to-date guide to writing use cases, expanding on the classic treatments into intermediate and advanced concepts, making this...

Author(s): Alistair Cockburn
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0201702255