Books for the Business Analyst

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 

Use cases are a simple, straightforward -- yet very powerful -- way to express the functional requirements (or behaviors) of a system. Use cases have ...

Author(s): Kurt Bittner, Ian Spence
Paperback: 368 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0201709131
 

Pressured with tight deadlines, application developers do not have the luxury of keeping completely up-to-date with all of the latest innovations in s...

Author(s): Martin Fowler
Paperback: 208 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0321193681