The Business Analyst Toolbox

Information technology organizations and departments encounter many challenges in today's marketplace. All too often, the business analyst is put into place to turn business challenges into workable solutions without a lot of support or understanding of what is really needed. Whether IT is in a traditional Waterfall project management environment or an Angile one, the BA must have a work-ready toolbox to fit the situation. This unique guide offers project managers and business analysts at every level an indispensible set of tools and techniques, with easy-to-understand guidance on how to use them for today's project challenges. Using real business cases, user scenarios, and proven test plans, this toolbox makes the art of business analysis easy to plan, analyze, and execute effectively with optimum results. It presents tried and tested best practices that solve real business problems with favorable results. It supplies real Fortune 500 company business cases and solution review for all business analyst skill levels. It provides industry definitions aligned to the new BABOK version 3.0. It includes enterprise, project, and business analyst skill level assessments.WAV offers one-of-a-kind downloadable templates for task planning, requirement documentation, requirement traceability, test planning, and test plans to help business analysts and project managers succeed - available from the Web Added Value[trademark] Download Resource Center.