Agile business analysis, agile development. Now you can have both.Business Analysis Agility, written by two of the most renowned experts in the BA field, shows you a modern, more nimble approach to delivering solutions that precisely match the real needs of the customers. The book shows you how to: <ul>
<li>Make agile development better </li>
<li>Make business analysis better </li>
<li>Solve the right problem -- get the right result </li>
<li>Don't waste time on things nobody will use </li>
<li>Integrate business analyst with agile development</li>
</ul>Despite our technological advances, the biggest problem is still the human one: how to correctly understand the customer's real problem, and how to ensure that your solution is correctly solving that problem.<ul>
<li>Finding the customer or user segments, and which of them yields the best, and the earliest value </li>
<li>Using value propositions to uncover the real needs of the customers</li>
<li>Using safe-to-fail probes to ensure that any proposed solution solves the right problem and delivers the right value. </li>
<li>Deploying an iterative approach to discovering the real problem, and progressively feeding the right stories to the delivery activity. </li>
<li>Understanding that by discovering the right needs and solving the right problem you deliver real value to your customer and your sponsor. </li>
<li>Doing all this quickly </li>
</ul>The Robertsons' approach to analytical thinking is crucial to anyone who wants to build better software in agile environments: analysts, developers, team leads, project managers, software architects, and other team members and stakeholders at most levels of experience.

Business Analysis Agility: Delivering Value, Not Just Software

Business & Money

Robertson, Suzanne

Robertson, James

Management & Leadership

Addison-Wesley Professional

Mastering the Requirements Process

Computers & Technology

Reed, Adrian

Programming

Written by two internationally acclaimed experts on requirements, Mastering the Requirements Process provides software engineers with the practical insights, techniques and templates to discover exactly what their customers desire for their systems. It also explains how to implement an easily learned, ongoing forma requirements process which allows the requirements to evolve over the life time of the project. Using this book you will learn how to ask the right questions, how to determine whether or not the final solution will satisfy the requirements, how to fit the solution to the requirements to provide high quality products and even how to reuse requirements. The result is, systems that the user loves to use!

Addison-Wesley (Sd)

Requirements are a crucial ingredient of any successful project. This is true for any product--software, hardware, consumer appliance, or large-scale construction. You have to understand its requirements--what is needed and desired--if you are to build the right product. Most developers recognize the truth in this statement, even if they don't always live up to it. Far less obvious, however, is the contribution that the requirements activity makes to project management. Requirements, along with other outputs from the requirements activity, are potent project management tools.
In Requirements-Led Project Management, Suzanne and James Robertson show how to use requirements to manage the development lifecycle. They show program managers, product and project managers, team leaders, and business analysts specifically how to: 
<ul>
<li>Use requirements as input to project planning and decision-making</li> <li>Determine whether to invest in a project</li> <li>Deliver more appropriate products with a quick cycle time</li> <li>Measure and estimate the requirements effort</li> <li>Define the most effective requirements process for a project</li> <li>Manage stakeholder involvement and expectations</li> <li>Set requirements priorities</li> <li>Manage requirements across multiple domains and technologies</li> <li>Use requirements to communicate across business and technological boundaries</li>
</ul>
In their previous book, Mastering the Requirements Process, the Robertsons defined Volere--their groundbreaking and now widely adopted requirements process. In this second book, they look at the outputs from the requirements process and demonstrate how you can take advantage of the all-important links between requirements and project success.

Requirements-led Project Management: Discovering David's Slingshot

"If the purpose is to create one of the best books on requirements yet written, the authors have succeeded." —Capers Jones It is widely recognized that incorrect requirements account for up to 60 percent of errors in software products, and yet the majority of software development organizations do not have a formal requirements process. Many organizations appear willing to spend huge amounts on fixing and altering poorly specified software, but seem unwilling to invest a much smaller amount to get the requirements right in the first place. Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Edition , sets out an industry-proven process for gathering and verifying requirements with an eye toward today's agile development environments. In this total update of the bestselling guide, the authors show how to discover precisely what the customer wants and needs while doing the minimum requirements work according to the project's level of agility. Features include <ul>
<li>The Volere requirements process—completely specified, and revised for compatibility with agile environments</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>A specification template that can be used as the basis for your own requirements specifications </li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>New agility ratings that help you funnel your efforts into only the requirements work needed for your particular development environment and project</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>How to make requirements testable using fit criteria</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>Iterative requirements gathering leading to faster delivery to the client</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>Checklists to help identify stakeholders, users, nonfunctional requirements, and more </li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>Details on gathering and implementing requirements for iterative releases</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>An expanded project sociology section for help with identifying and communicating with stakeholders</li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>Strategies for exploiting use cases to determine the best product to build </li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>Methods for reusing requirements and requirements patterns </li> </ul>
<ul>
<li>Examples showing how the techniques and templates are applied in real-world situations </li> </ul>

Requirements are a crucial ingredient of any successful project. This is true for any product--software, hardware, consumer appliance, or large-scale construction. You have to understand its requirements--what is needed and desired--if you are to build the right product. Most developers recognize the truth in this statement, even if they don't always live up to it. Far less obvious, however, is the contribution that the requirements activity makes to project management. Requirements, along with other outputs from the requirements activity, are potent project management tools. In Requirements-Led Project Management, Suzanne and James Robertson show how to use requirements to manage the development lifecycle. They show program managers, product and project managers, team leaders, and business analysts specifically how to: <ul>
<li>Use requirements as input to project planning and decision-making </li>
<li>Determine whether to invest in a project </li>
<li>Deliver more appropriate products with a quick cycle time </li>
<li>Measure and estimate the requirements effort </li>
<li>Define the most effective requirements process for a project </li>
<li>Manage stakeholder involvement and expectations </li>
<li>Set requirements priorities </li>
<li>Manage requirements across multiple domains and technologies </li>
<li>Use requirements to communicate across business and technological boundaries</li> </ul>
In their previous book, Mastering the Requirements Process, the Robertsons defined Volere--their groundbreaking and now widely adopted requirements process. In this second book, they look at the outputs from the requirements process and demonstrate how you can take advantage of the all-important links between requirements and project success.

Requirements-Led Project Management: Discovering David's Slingshot (paperback)

“If the purpose is to create one of the best books on requirements yet written, the authors have succeeded.” —Capers Jones Software can solve almost any problem. The trick is knowing what the problem is. With about half of all software errors originating in the requirements activity, it is clear that a better understanding of the problem is needed. Getting the requirements right is crucial if we are to build systems that best meet our needs. We know, beyond doubt, that the right requirements produce an end result that is as innovative and beneficial as it can be, and that system development is both effective and efficient. Mastering the Requirements Process: Getting Requirements Right, Third Edition, sets out an industry-proven process for gathering and verifying requirements, regardless of whether you work in a traditional or agile development environment. In this sweeping update of the bestselling guide, the authors show how to discover precisely what the customer wants and needs, in the most efficient manner possible. Features include <ul>
<li> The Volere requirements process for discovering requirements, for use with both traditional and iterative environments </li> <li> A specification template that can be used as the basis for your own requirements specifications </li> <li> Formality guides that help you funnel your efforts into only the requirements work needed for your particular development environment and project </li> <li> How to make requirements testable using fit criteria </li> <li> Checklists to help identify stakeholders, users, non-functional requirements, and more </li> <li> Methods for reusing requirements and requirements patterns </li> </ul>
 New features include <ul>
<li> Strategy guides for different environments, including outsourcing </li> <li> Strategies for gathering and implementing requirements for iterative releases </li> <li> “Thinking above the line” to find the real problem </li> <li> How to move from requirements to finding the right solution </li> <li> The Brown Cow model for clearer viewpoints of the system </li> <li> Using story cards as requirements </li> <li> Using the Volere Knowledge Model to help record and communicate requirements </li> <li> Fundamental truths about requirements and system development </li> </ul>

Mastering the Requirements Process: Getting Requirements Right

In a fundamentally new approach, this innovative text -- now available in a single, softcover volume -- teaches all the techniques a modern analyst needs. 
The authors explain all the methods, models, and techniques of analysis, and simulate an actual project executed for a British television company. The reader is guided through each step of the project by exercises and the authors' advice. 
The book also brings systems analysis up to date, showing how analysis is used for object-oriented implementation, and how event-response data flow models and entity-relationship data models are complementary, not competing, models. A clever system of trail guides lets the readers model an extensive case study at their own pace, in a sequence based on their level of experience. 
Complete Systems Analysis adapts to the reader's needs and provides an appropriate learning path for the beginner, with a more direct route for experienced analysts wanting to make better use of today's techniques. 
Note: This softcover edition replaces the two-volume hardcover edition, ISBN: 0-932633-25-0. 
Topics Include 
* Analysis Models * Data Flow Diagrams * Data Viewpoint * Data Models * Leveled Data Flow Diagrams * Current Physical Viewpoint * Building the Data Dictionary * Strategy: Focusing on the Essentials * Identifying Events * Modeling an Event Response * Writing Mini Specifications * CRUD Check * Modeling New Requirements * New Physical Viewpoint * Object-Oriented Viewpoint * Strategy: Toward Implementation

Complete Systems Analysis: The Workbook the Textbook/the Answers

Dorset House

In a fundamentally new approach, this innovative text -- now available in a single, softcover volume -- teaches all the techniques a modern analyst needs. 
The authors explain all the methods, models, and techniques of analysis, and simulate an actual project executed for a British television company. The reader is guided through each step of the project by exercises and the authors' advice. 
The book also brings systems analysis up to date, showing how analysis is used for object-oriented implementation, and how event-response data flow models and entity-relationship data models are complementary, not competing, models. A clever system of trail guides lets the readers model an extensive case study at their own pace, in a sequence based on their level of experience. 
Complete Systems Analysis adapts to the reader's needs and provides an appropriate learning path for the beginner, with a more direct route for experienced analysts wanting to make better use of today's techniques. 
Note: This softcover edition replaces the two-volume hardcover edition, ISBN: 0-932633-25-0. 
Topics Include 
* Analysis Models * Data Flow Diagrams * Data Viewpoint * Data Models * Leveled Data Flow Diagrams * Current Physical Viewpoint * Building the Data Dictionary * Strategy: Focusing on the Essentials * Identifying Events * Modeling an Event Response * Writing Mini Specifications * CRUD Check * Modeling New Requirements * New Physical Viewpoint * Object-Oriented Viewpoint * Strategy: Toward Implementation

Complete Systems Analysis: The Workbook, the Textbook, the Answers

Workplace culture explained in an actionable form. 
The pandemic, work-from-home, hybrid work modes, and sold-off real estate have dealt organizational cultures a body blow. Here's a book about rebuilding your culture. Early Praise for Happy to Work Here: “An important book on the topic at exactly the right time.” – Rob Austin, author of Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations. 
A no-handwaving treatment of workplace culture. Yes, we all know culture is important, but just exactly what is it? In the first six chapters, the authors lay out the unique and powerful concept of culture drivers. You'll understand culture, both in your own workplace and in that of others, as you've never understood it before. 
"Those who loved classics like Peopleware, Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies, and Slack will love Happy to Work Here. The authors, all members of the Atlantic Systems Guild, use storytelling gathered from decades of guiding workplace cultures to give us meaningful insights into organizations." – Michael Mah, Managing Partner of QSM Associates 
"The whole section on Culture Killers was hilarious. It will make you laugh . . . and cry." What readers are saying: "What a revelation to find a book on corporate culture that is actually a joy to read! Happy to Work Here is so well-organized, graphically presented and written that even a non-corporate person like myself, who has been a writer and editor for smallish magazines and newspapers, can enjoy reading it and find so many resonant insights. Some of my favorites: leaders should 'be the behavior you seek;' design in products and the work environment is of utmost importance because 'if you don’t pay attention to beauty then you are consigned to expediency;' company structure should include a shared belief that 'no one is threatened by excellent performance;' and the best of all, for me, was the comment by one of the book’s six authors, Tom DeMarco, that the satisfaction of creating something 'as a partnership was better' than doing it alone, proof of how working together with the right group ethos can be so rewarding. — Jefferson, Maine "Yes, I recommend this book! It reeks of hard-learned lessons from which we all can benefit, in or outside of the corporate world." — Camden, Maine "I was interested to read Happy to Work Here” as the experienced authors carefully lay out the important drivers of a healthy culture in a company, as well as the culture killers. More importantly they provide a detailed blueprint on how one can assess the culture of their workplace and take steps to improve this most important aspect of a successful organization.As I read the book, I was reminded of observations made by Hyrum Smith, the cofounder with Stephen Covey of the FranklinCovey Co. In a recent book, Smith suggested there are three levels of emotion to motivate people to come to work each day. The lowest level is fear of losing one’s source of income and the feeling of having to come to work each day. The second level is duty were coming to work is considered the proper thing to do, and the highest level to motivate people to act is love where they actually look forward to coming to work. Employees at this level need very little supervision and workplace culture is the key to instilling this feeling of looking forward to working at the company. The research and resulting suggestions the authors provide are spot on to assist readers in first assessing, and then improving, the culture and productivity of their organizations.: – Dover, Massachussetts "This is a useful common sense guide to improving workplace culture. It is mostly focussed on teams building IT products. I particularly enjoyed the section on Culture Killers - such as the dangers of ‘Unspoken Rules’" — London, England

Happy to Work Here: Understanding and Improving the Culture at Work

Lister, Tim

DeMarco, Tom

Hruschka, Peter

McMenamin, Steve

Business Culture

Tom DeMarco

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Business Analysis Agility: Delivering Value, Not Just Software

Mastering the Requirements Process

Mastering the Requirements Process

Requirements-led Project Management: Discovering David's Slingshot

Mastering the Requirements Process

Requirements-Led Project Management: Discovering David's Slingshot (paperback)

Mastering the Requirements Process: Getting Requirements Right

Complete Systems Analysis: The Workbook the Textbook/the Answers

Complete Systems Analysis: The Workbook, the Textbook, the Answers

Happy to Work Here: Understanding and Improving the Culture at Work