Business Analysis Techniques: 99 essential tools for success Paperback – September 23, 2014

This excellent book probably covers everything you need to perform business analysis and to some great extent process analysis. Other BA books I have purchased and read barely give the reader anything new. Business Analysis Techniques: 72 Essential Tools for Success lives up to its promise and delivers 72 practical techniques. The book is written and organized in a clear style of writing and structure. Each technique is clearly described and illustrated with tables or graphics. The book also has an alphabetical list of the techniques described in the book for quick search. This book is a great companion reference book.

I bought this book along with its companion "Business Analysis" and love both of them. I was recently transitioned into a new business analysis role at work and bought a lot of books and did a lot of research on my new role. This book is by far the best out there. The material is presented clearly and it's very easy to follow. They have some great template examples and really help you understand each step of the business analysis process. I highly recommend this book to any business analyst... new or seasoned.

I continue to bounce in regards to how I'm absorbing this content. It definitely has content that can be brought to the office, presented and get people thinking about business analysis in new ways. Recommend!

Purchased a copy for a Masters paper in Business Analysis. A great text with good info, and much more user-friendly that the BABOK dog.

Just what I needed for school. Book came in excellent condition.

I was excellent.

Good book

Reviewing this book in the context of it being one of the 11 books recommended to read to prepare for the PM-PBA, book 1 or 11. The book proposes a life-cycle Business Analysis from; Business Strategy and Objectives, Investigate Situation, Consider Perspectives, Analyze Needs, Evaluate Options, to Define Requirements. The Authors then create a framework by laying 99 techniques into the framework at various stages.It is an interesting approach, and probably a curative to many of the poorly designed portfolios, programs, and projects when helping to guide the hands of an experienced practitioner. The novice to intermediate practitioner might find the lack of detail on techniques frustrating, this is more of a BA Field Manual than a "How To". Found this book expensive but liked it. Encyclopedic feel. I will use it professionally.Reviewer may come back and change stars based on the remaining PMI-PBA reads, Feb 2015