The Business Analyst’s Handbook
- ISBN13: 9781598635652
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- Notes: Brand fm Publisher. Remainder Mark.
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The Business Analyst’s Handbook
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This book should be on the desk of every Project Manager, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, and Technical Writer. The definitive guide to forms, formats, and analytical concepts. Well done! (Now, if only I could get it in Kindle format!!)
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by M. Raleigh — December 15, 2009 @ 9:38 pm
I have just receieved my copy of this book, and my first reaction is;
Dear Author, Find yourself a new publisher!!!
One which can at the very least get the Contents table to match the actual contents of the book.
If you intend to use this book as a reference, good hunting!
Because that is what you will be doing to find the correct page for the rference you need, as the contents table certainly bears no semblance of reality.
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment by Welread Wonderer — December 16, 2009 @ 12:22 am
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.
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment by R. Lamb — December 16, 2009 @ 2:35 am
This is a great on the job reference book. I find it valuable for ensuring I am up to date with BA terms.
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment by Richard Cardenas — December 16, 2009 @ 2:52 am
Love the book, the tools and best practices have really helped me on the job. I’ve noticed some of the comments below have referenced that the table of contents is incorrect. Just wanted to mention that my copy doesn’t seem to have this issue.
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment by Andrew M. Peterson — December 16, 2009 @ 3:42 am