Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Business Analysis books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
1. Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (2015)
Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide provides practical resources to tackle the project-related issues associated with requirements and business analysis—and addresses a critical need in the industry for more guidance in this area. The practice guide begins by describing the work of business analysis. It identifies the tasks that are performed, in addition to the essential knowledge and skills needed to effectively perform business analysis on programs and projects. #129,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #180 in Business Project Management (Books) #1980 in Business…
2. A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide) (2015)
A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) is the only globally recognized standard of practice for business analysis. Developed through a rigorous consensus-driven standards process, the BABOK® Guide incorporates the collective wisdom and experience of experts in the field from around the world. Previous editions have guided hundreds of thousands of professionals in their work, and it has been adopted by hundreds of enterprises as the basis of their business analysis practice. This latest version of the guide extends its scope beyond business…
3. Microsoft Excel Data Analysis and Business Modeling (5th Edition) (2016)
Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2016, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel’s newest tools to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. This edition adds 150+ new problems with solutions, plus a chapter of basic spreadsheet models to make sure you’re fully up to speed. #38,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #20 in Microsoft Excel Guides #21 in Data Mining (Books) #20…
4. The PMI Guide to Business Analysis (2018)
The Standard for Business Analysis – First Edition is a new PMI foundational standard, developed as a basis for business analysis for portfolio, program, and project management. This standard illustrates how project management processes and business analysis processes are complementary activities, where the primary focus of project management processes is the project and the primary focus of business analysis processes is the product. This is a process-based standard, aligned with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Sixth Edition, and to be used as a standard framework…
5. How to Start a Business Analyst Career: The handbook to apply business analysis techniques, select requirements training, and explore job roles … career (Business Analyst Career Guide) (2015)
You may be wondering if business analysis is the right career choice, debating if you have what it takes to be successful as a business analyst, or looking for tips to maximize your business analysis opportunities. With the average salary for a business analyst in the United States reaching above $90,000 per year, more talented, experienced professionals are pursuing business analysis careers than ever before. But the path is not clear cut. No degree will guarantee you will start in a business analyst role. What’s more, few junior-level business analyst jobs exist. Yet every year professionals with…
6. Business Analysis for Beginners: Jump-Start Your BA Career in Four Weeks (2014)
is a comprehensive hands-on guide to jump-starting your BA career in weeks. The book empowers you to gain a complete understanding of business analysis fundamental concepts and unlock the value of a business analyst to an organization in identifying problems and opportunities and finding solutions. Learn how to define the business needs and apply the most effective tools and techniques to elicit, analyze and communicate requirements with business stakeholders. #400,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #162 in Management Information Systems #617 in Strategy & Competition #1324…
7. Business Analysis And Process Modeling: A Beginner’s Guide To Business Strategy And Process Improvement (2018)
Learn How to Analyze and Improve Business.What if small steps will dramatically increase your Business productivity in critical areas? What if the organization have enough time to improve services not only maintain them?ITIL Expert, Ahmed Fawzy, present a remarkable approached to improve services. Based on 14 years of experience building services for various organizations of different sizes across all sectors, Ahmed answer the question: How do I align business analysis to generate business benefits?In this book you will learn: Learn this and more, Buy this…
8. Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling (6th Edition) (Business Skills) (2019)
Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2019 and Office 365 and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands-on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. New coverage ranges from Power Query/Get & Transform to Office 365 Geography and Stock data types. Practice with more than 800 problems, many based on actual challenges faced by working analysts. Solve real business problems with Excel—and…
9. Seven Steps to Mastering Business Analysis (2008)
Business analysis is the fastest growing field in business today and the role of the business analyst is both strategic and tactical. At the strategic level, the focus is on understanding the needs of the business as a whole, its strategic direction, and identifying initiatives that will enable the business to meet its goals. At the tactical level, the discipline originally emerged from work previously done by project managers, such as gathering high level business requirements, and work done by systems analysts, such as designing functional requirements for software…
10. Mastering Business Analysis Standard Practices: Seven Steps to the Next Level of Competency (Business Analysis Professional Development) (2019)
This volume presents all the standard practices for performing business analysis work across seven steps, five perspectives, and 74 techniques. It will help business analysts at all levels further develop their skills to master the next level of competency in business analysis needed to advance their careers. It will help readers comprehend the BA role, responsibilities, and deliverables that ensure business analysis success. #1,421,058 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #382 in Engineering Project Management #658 in Computer Systems Analysis & Design (Books) #392 in Technical Project…
11. Business Analysis For Dummies (2013)
Business analysis refers to the set of tasks and activities that help companies determine their objectives for meeting certain opportunities or addressing challenges and then help them define solutions to meet those objectives. Those engaged in business analysis are charged with identifying the activities that enable the company to define the business problem or opportunity, define what the solutions looks like, and define how it should behave in the end. As a BA, you lay out the plans for the process ahead. Business Analysis For Dummies is the go to…
12. Business Analysis with Microsoft Excel (5th Edition) (2018)
It’s time to put the full power of Excel quantitative analysis behind your management decisions! Business analysis expert Conrad Carlberg shows you how to use Excel to perform core financial tasks all managers and entrepreneurs need to master: analyzing statements, planning and controlling company finances, making investment decisions, and managing sales and marketing. Carlberg helps you make the most of Excel’s tools and features in everything from business case development to cash flow analysis. Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier….
13. Mastering Business Analysis Standard Practices Workbook (Business Analysis Professional Development) (2019)
This volume is the companion workbook to Mastering Business Analysis Standard Practices. Designed for instructors, trainers, and students, this supplemental workbook should be used in conjunction with the main text and enables readers to practice the seven-step business analysis process they are learning with a realistic case study, exercises, and suggested solutions. Key Features: presents a structured step-by-step process for performing business analysis that any new or experienced practitioner could follow, rather than having to piece the process together themselves; demonstrates how to plan the…
14. Business Analysis (2014)
Business analysts must respond to the challenges of today’s highly competitive global economy by developing practical, creative and financially sound solutions that will address business problems and grasp new opportunities. This excellent guide sets out the essential toolkit required. It is also ideal for students wanting to gain university and industry qualifications in business analysis and information systems, and is particularly beneficial for those studying for the BCS Professional Certificate in Business Analysis. Important additions in the third edition include expanded discussions regarding gap analysis and benefits…
15. REQUIREMENTS GATHERING FOR THE NEW BUSINESS ANALYST: The Simplified Beginners Guide to Business Systems Analysis (2017)
Have you recently taken on the role of Business Analyst, but have no clue where to start? Were you thrown into a project and given very little direction? How stressful! The entire project team is depending on you to deliver a critical requirements document that is the foundation for the entire project. But the problem is, you have no little to no training, very little direction, and and a very clear time-line of ASAP. What do you do? I’ve been in this situation, and it is no fun. In the early years of my career when I was a Business Analyst, I had to fumble my way through many projects to learn the tools that I…
Best Business Analysis Books to Read
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Capital Structure, Earnings Management, and Risk of Financial Distress: A Comparative Analysis of Family and Non-family Firms
Author(s): Pietro Gottardo, Anna Maria Moisello
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2309483
Digital Business Analysis
Author(s): Fredrik Milani
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 22 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2354618
Microsoft Excel 2019 Data Analysis and Business Modeling
Author(s): Wayne Winston
Publisher: Microsoft Press, Year: 2019, Size: 78 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2382357
Python Data Science: The Ultimate Handbook for Beginners on How to Explore NumPy for Numerical Data, Pandas for Data Analysis, IPython, Scikit-Learn and Tensorflow for Machine Learning and Business
Author(s): Steve Blair
Publisher: Steve Blair, Year: 2019, Size: 2 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2401143
Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis: 7th IFIP WG 2.6 International Symposium, SIMPDA 2017, Neuchatel, Switzerland, December 6-8, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
Author(s): Paolo Ceravolo, Maurice van Keulen, Kilian Stoffel
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 8 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2407166
Business Responsibility and Sustainability in India: Sectoral Analysis of Voluntary Governance Initiatives
Author(s): Bimal Arora, Pawan Budhwar, Divya Jyoti
Publisher: Springer International Publishing; Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2019, Size: 4 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2407483
Applied Statistics and Multivariate Data Analysis for Business and Economics: A Modern Approach Using SPSS, Stata, and Excel
Author(s): Thomas Cleff
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 25 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2408181
The Mercantile Ethical Tradition in Edo Period Japan: A Comparative Analysis with Bushido
Author(s): Ichiro Horide
Publisher: Springer Singapore, Year: 2019, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2411405
Business Dynamics in North America : Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Trade Patterns
Author(s): Rajagopal.; Zlatev, Vladimir
Publisher: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2134172
Applied Regression Analysis for Business: Tools, Traps and Applications
Author(s): Jacek Welc,Pedro J. Rodriguez Esquerdo
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2018, Size: 6 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2179981
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are really best-sellers according to Washington Post, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.