Business Analysis Kickstart
Kickstart is a unique and effective guide to business analysis thanks to our laser-like focus on giving you practical advice and heaps of visual information, making it easy to understand and absorb. It will be useful both to people just starting their business analysis career, and to experienced BAs.
We have condensed a dozen books, countless articles and years of practical experience into 90 concise pages which will save you a lot of reading. Kickstart is full of useful tips on communication with business users, obtaining information by observing users’ activities, documenting the results of analysis, getting your point across with visual aids, and more.
Here are some sample pages:
We provide you with a framework for business analysis and requirements management and also show you the steps involved in each stage of business analysis:
- enterprise analysis
- BA planning and monitoring
- requirements elicitation
- requirements analysis
- solution assessment and validation
- requirements management and communication
(You may note that we cover all the areas from the BABOK® Guide.)
The guide includes a reference of techniques used in each of these stages too.
In addition, we introduce the concept of “business analysis critical path” by analogy with project management, where we show what documents a BA uses and produces to make a project successful.
It’s more than just business analysis
A great business analyst understands more than just analysis, and that’s why we’ve also included sections on:
- project management
- stakeholder engagement
- change management
- risk management
- issue management
- business process modelling
- ITIL
- software development lifecycle
- business rules
- enterprise architecture
In these sections, we give you carefully extracted knowledge about all these areas which is relevant to business analysts. How many books would you have to read to find it all out yourself? We’d like to save you all that time and expense!
By the way, our change management chart is even featured in a book called Project Management for Healthcare by David Shirley (p. 110), so you can be sure we know what we’re doing!
Table of contents (click to view)
| About business analysis and this book | 1 |
| Business analysis framework | 2 |
| Business analysis basics | 3 |
| Listen | 5 |
| Watch | 6 |
| Explore | 7 |
| Speak | 8 |
| Write | 9 |
| Draw | 10 |
| Iterate | 11 |
| Business analysis knowledge domains | 12 |
| Enterprise analysis | 13 |
| BA planning and monitoring | 14 |
| Requirements elicitation | 15 |
| Requirements analysis | 16 |
| Solution assessment and validation | 17 |
| Requirements management and communication | 18 |
| Requirements management framework | 19 |
| Key BA documents | 20 |
| Beyond business analysis | 22 |
| Interdisciplinary relationships | 24 |
| Context: industry vs. business | 25 |
| Stakeholders | 26 |
| Project management | 28 |
| Issue management | 34 |
| Risk management | 35 |
| Change management | 36 |
| Enterprise architecture | 39 |
| Software development lifecycle | 42 |
| IT Infrastructure Library | 43 |
| Business process modelling | 50 |
| Business rules | 53 |
| Business analysis critical path | 57 |
| Plan | 59 |
| Define | 60 |
| Analyse | 61 |
| Design | 62 |
| Build | 63 |
| Test | 64 |
| Deploy | 65 |
| Summary | 66 |
| Business analysis techniques | 67 |
| Enterprise analysis | 68 |
| Planning and monitoring | 73 |
| Requirements elicitation | 79 |
| Requirements analysis | 80 |
| Requirements management and communication | 87 |
| Requirements assessment and validation | 90 |
| Conclusion | 93 |
| References | 95 |
What you get
Kickstart is provided in PDF format, without annoying DRM or password protection. It is laid out in landscape orientation, making it comfortable to read either on screen or in printed form. We also made sure that the diagrams look good when printed on A4, letter or A3 paper.
Get it today!
Kickstart will show you business analysis from a practical, real world perspective and help you crystallise your knowledge. It might even make your job a bit easier and more fun!
Business Analysis Kickstart is available for just $97.
Buy Kickstart together with the BA Template Kit and save 20%!
Business Analysis Template Kit is a comprehensive set of 12 templates which will help you produce better BA documentation. It comes complete with a requirements management plan and a 16-page guide. Buying Kickstart and the Template Kit separately would cost you $156 but you can get them as a bundle for just $124 and save 20%!
Need Kickstart for the whole department or company?
If you don’t want the hassle of purchasing and tracking the use of individual licences, you can purchase a 100 seat site licence for your organisation for just $599.
