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"The Real Captain" is a helpful guide for any aspiring or practising Business Analyst (BA). Instead of merely discussing theories, the book presents real-world scenarios and offers real practical insights. It addresses crucial questions like what BAs do in real projects, their challenges, and how they apply theoretical concepts during business analysis to make their work effective, productive and thus projects successful. The author, Jayakishor, aims to assist readers in succeeding as BAs by providing valuable information and practice exercises. The book includes self-assessments to determine if you are well-suited for the job, numerous questions for learning, and guidance for interviews, CVs, and LinkedIn profiles.It serves as a valuable resource for IT professionals or those aspiring to become BAs, professionals from other fields seeking a transition to a Business Analysis role, or newcomers who wish to comprehend the role of a BA in an IT project. Throughout the book, the author aims to empower readers with the insights and preparation needed to excel as a BA, thus empowering readers to navigate complex professional situations confidently.
It's Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects discusses frameworks, strategies, and techniques for working with stakeholders of user experience (UX) research in a way that ensures their buy-in. This book consists of six chapters arranged according to the different stages of research projects. Topics discussed include the different roles of business, engineering, and user-experience stakeholders; identification of research opportunities by developing empathy with stakeholders; and planning UX research with stakeholders. The book also offers ways of teaming up with stakeholders; strategies to improve the communication of research results to stakeholders; a...
One of the objectives of this book is to incorporate best practices and standards in to the BA role. While a number of standards and guidelines, such as Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), have been incorporated, particular emphasis has been placed on the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), and the Unified Modeling Language (UML).
Want to know what your users are thinking? If you’re a product manager or developer, this book will help you learn the techniques for finding the answers to your most burning questions about your customers. With step-by-step guidance, Validating Product Ideas shows you how to tackle the research to build the best possible product.
In this specially combined edition with a new foreword, Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed author Charles Fishman blend their insights from bestselling books A Curious Mind and Face to Face to transform the art of connecting with and through curiosity. In A Curious Mind, deemed “a captivation account of how the simple act of asking questions can change your life” by Malcolm Gladwell, Grazer offers a brilliant peek into the “curiosity conversations” that inspired him to create some of the world’s most iconic movies and television shows. He shows how curiosity has been the “superpower” that fueled his rise as one of Hollywood’s leading producers and cre...
Go beyond spreadsheets and tables and design a data presentation that really makes an impact. This practical guide shows you how to use Tableau Software to convert raw data into compelling data visualizations that provide insight or allow viewers to explore the data for themselves. Ideal for analysts, engineers, marketers, journalists, and researchers, this book describes the principles of communicating data and takes you on an in-depth tour of common visualization methods. You’ll learn how to craft articulate and creative data visualizations with Tableau Desktop 8.1 and Tableau Public 8.1. Present comparisons of how much and how many Use blended data sources to create ratios and rates Create charts to depict proportions and percentages Visualize measures of mean, median, and mode Lean how to deal with variation and uncertainty Communicate multiple quantities in the same view Show how quantities and events change over time Use maps to communicate positional data Build dashboards to combine several visualizations
The second edition of this book is a response to the fact that today BAs are expected to not merely help in gathering requirement for software, but solve real-world business problems, act as design thinkers and innovators, architects, drive process, and business transformation, and become ‘trusted advisors’ to managements—while leveraging their core strength in Information Technology. If the earlier edition was the first book on the subject—this edition takes the subject to the next level by preparing a BA to become a design thinker! An architect/design thinker usually views any problem from multiple perspectives. This edition, has therefore, been structured such that most of the cha...
More than 80% of the PMs are not having clarity on the right resources to become a PM • Nearly 50% of the PMs are taking more than 12 months to gain awareness of the different roles and responsibilities of a PM • Nearly 60% of the PMs are taking more than 6 months to learn the fundamental concepts of a PM This book is crafted with the step-by-step procedure, case studies and proven methods to get your product management basics right. This book also provides a structured approach to transition into product management from diverse disciplines such as engineering, project management, sales, marketing and customer support. Testimonials Product Management Simplified is a great starting guide ...
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A step-by-step guide to implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for Mobile, Hybrid, and Web applications KEY FEATURESÊ - This book covers all these practices that can be utilized in real-life scenarios with sample applications written in Java, Android, iOS, Node.js, Angular, Ionic Cordova, Xamarin, Python, and PHP.Ê - This book provides detailed insight into Microsoft Azure Cloud, especially Platform as a Service Model - Azure App Services.Ê - This book utilizes the Multi-Stage Pipeline Feature of Azure DevOps. Step by Step implementation of Continuous Practices of DevOps makes it easy to understand even for beginners of DevOps practices. DESCRIPTIONÊ This book will c...