Books for the Business Analyst

Aggressively being adopted by organizations in all markets, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a framework enabling business process improvement f...

Author: James P. Lawler
Paperback: 288 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1420045000

Architectural design is a crucial first step in developing complex software intensive systems. Early design decisions establish the structures necessa...

Author: Anthony J. Lattanze
Paperback: 416 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1420045697 

AntiPatterns: Identification, Refactoring, and Management catalogs 48 bad management practices and environments common to software development, IT, an...

Author: Phillip A. Laplante
Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0849329944

Effective communication on projects is a challenging, ongoing process for project managers and stakeholders at all levels within an organization. Proj...

Author: Ralph L. Kliem PMP
Paperback: 240 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1420062465

Extending beyond the technical architecture to the very philosophy of how a business should operate, the Service Orientation approach establishes flui...

Author: Setrag Khoshafian
Paperback: 464 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0849353604 

Senior level IT managers are responsible for a wide variety of development projects. For the most part, these individual projects are handled by proje...

Author: Jessica Keyes
Paperback: 336 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1420070828

The goals of an IT balanced scorecard include the alignment of IT plans with business objectives, the establishment of measures of IT effectiveness, t...

Author: Jessica Keyes
Paperback: 528 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0849326219

Organizations waste millions of dollars every year on failed projects. Failure is practically guaranteed by poor or incomplete requirements that do no...

 Author: Hans Jonasson
Paperback: 320 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1420045024

In the past, an organization’s technical methodologies were expected to fulfill project management process needs. However, they sometimes fell short o...

Author: Gerard M. Hill
Paperback: 420 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1439801543

The Business Value of IT: Managing Risks, Optimizing Performance, and Measuring Results examines how to measure IT performance, how to put a dollar va...

Author: Michael D. S. Harris, David Herron, Stasia Iwanicki
Paperback: 296 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1420064742