Is This Book for Me?If you are involved in any aspect of the process of system development, from beleaguered analyst to frustrated programmer, this book should give you strong insight into front-end project planning, and how you can make it much better. Aren’t There a Lot of Other Books Just Like This One?There are books about system requirements analysis, and there are books on project planning and management.

There are even books on methodologies for each of these. But not much that brings together project planning and requirements analysis.

This book addresses the questions of, where do I begin, and what do I do next? not by providing pages of checklists, or specific tools (I’m confident you know what you need), but by focusing attention on the nature of business system requirements analysis and the environment in which the requirements must be determined. So, What Won’t This Book Teach Me?Magic and witchcraft.

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Well, What Will It Teach Me?With luck, and some dedicated application, I hope it will show you how to think about putting together a really good, robust, actionable, and result-driven project plan for the business requirements analysis phase of your project. It will enable you to schedule detailed discovery sessions, set the tone for the project, right up front, and establish your credibility as a business analyst.

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