AssistKD Publications

Business Analysis Techniques: 72 Essential Tools for Success

Written by Assist’s James Cadle, Debra Paul and Paul Turner, this book complements Business Analysis (see below) and provides 72 possible techniques and applies them within a framework of stages such as "Investigate Situation", "Define Requirements" and "Manage Change".

Where the earlier book provides a general survey of the work of the business analyst, and an overview of the business analysis process, this publication offers a more detailed description of the techniques used in business analysis, together with practical advice on their application.

The book will be of enormous benefit to practising business analysts and to managers in any area requiring a comprehensive single source of practical advice on the use of business analysis techniques. It will also be of considerable interest to students of information systems and business strategy.

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Business Analysis

Co-edited by Assist director, Debra Paul, this book was published by the British Computer Society in June 2006. "Business Analysis" provides a practical introductory guide for anyone involved in business analysis and interested in improving the effectiveness of IT and its alignment with organisations' business objectives. It includes chapters by Assist trainers James Cadle and Malcolm Eva.

Project Management for Information Systems

The fifth edition of the best-selling book by AssistKD director James Cadle and Donald Yeates, published by FT Prentice Hall in 2008. Updated in many areas, including coverage of different types of IS project and new approaches to development, such as Agile, the structure of the book has also been reorganised, to group the various 'themes' of project management together.

Introducing Systems Development

Steve Skidmore has teamed up with Malcolm Eva to produce a successor to his best selling Introducing Systems Analysis and Introducing Systems Design.

Key points in Introducing Systems Development are:

• A focus on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) models, techniques and vocabulary. Some structured and traditional tecniques are retained as part of the analyst's toolkit.
• A recognition of the role of quality assurance and testing in the systems development process
• A recognition that many organisations now fulfil their information system requirements through purchasing software packages.The book looks at the advantages and disadvantages of this approach and presents a method for selecting between competing solutions.

The book also contains exercises and a set of slides and exercise solutions are available to bona-fide lecturers at http://www.palgrave.com.