How to Start a Business Analyst Career | Book Series

Overview:

The second edition has been re-organized, expanded, and updated and includes a new forward by Software Requirements Memory Jogger author Ellen Gottesdiener.

There are two brand-new chapters on career planning along with expanded descriptions of business analyst job roles, a walk-through of a realistic business analyst workday, and discussions of how the latest certifications fit into your career plan.

Here’s what’s included in How to Start a Business Analyst Career:

  1. What It’s Like To Be A Business Analyst – Learn what a business analyst really is, experience a realistic sample work day, and receive answers to dozens of FAQs.
  2. What You Need to Know About Business Analysis – Decipher the key skills a new business analyst needs to be successful in this career.
  3. How to Expand Your Business Analysis Experience – Receive dozens of ideas for how to gain valuable business analysis work experience, whether you are in a technical role, business role, or unemployed.
  4. How to Connect With Business Analyst Professionals – Learn how to leverage the strength of the business analysis community to accelerate your career.
  5. Focus On The Right Business Analyst Role For You – Eliminate the perplexity of today’s business analyst job descriptions, by absorbing the descriptions of the most common types of business analyst roles.
  6. Your Career Transition Strategy – Confidently decide on your best path into business analysis.
  7. Move Toward Your Business Analyst Career Goals – Create a career transition plan that helps you experience success sooner than you might expect.

Author:   

Laura Brandenburg

Published In:

04 January 2015

Test-Driven Development | Book Series

Overview:

Agile methods are gaining more and more interest both in industry and in research. Many industries are transforming their way of working from traditional waterfall projects with long duration to more incremental, iterative and agile practices. At the same time, the need to evaluate and to obtain evidence for different processes, methods and tools has been emphasized.

Lech Madeyski offers the first in-depth evaluation of agile methods. He presents in detail the results of three different experiments, including concrete examples of how to conduct statistical analysis with meta analysis or the SPSS package, using as evaluation indicators the number of acceptance tests passed (overall and per hour) and design complexity metrics.

The book is appropriate for graduate students, researchers and advanced professionals in software engineering. It proves the real benefits of agile software development, provides readers with in-depth insights into experimental methods in the context of agile development, and discusses various validity threats in empirical studies.

Author:   

Lech Madeyski

Published In:

22 Dec 2009