Recommended Books for Business Analysts - Business Analyst Tools for Success

Working as a Business Analyst requires a wide spectrum of skills, problem-solving abilities, and continual learning.

These are a few books we recommend to all of our Business Analyst friends - to help expand your knowledge and give you new understanding and ideas that you can bring to your projects.

Check out the video at the end of this post for more information about each book!

As promised...here is the list, with links! (Amazon links are affiliate links so if you use them - I get a few pennies. But hey, pennies add up! ;-) )

Recommended Reading for BAs

The Inside Scoop on Working on Software Development Projects

• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams 3rd Edition by Tom DeMarco & Tim Lister
  https://amzn.to/318GiHd

The Nuts and Bolts of Software Design

• Everyday Information Architecture by Lisa Maria Martin
  https://abookapart.com/products/everyday-information-architecture

• Responsible Responsive Design by Scott Jehl
  https://abookapart.com/products/responsible-responsive-design

• Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
  https://abookapart.com/products/mobile-first

• HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith & Rachel Andrew
  https://abookapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers

• CSS3 for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm
  https://abookapart.com/products/css3-for-web-designers

• The New CSS Layout by Rachel Andrew
  https://abookapart.com/products/the-new-css-layout
  

The Requirements Documentation Process

• Practical Design Discovery by Dan Brown
  https://abookapart.com/products/practical-design-discovery

• Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
  https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research

• Designing the Requirements by Chris Britton
  https://amzn.to/2WhtvhQ

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann
  https://amzn.to/2Wgw9EK
  

Communicate Your Processes/Designs

• How to Draw Almost Everything: An Illustrated Sourcebook Paperback by Chika Miyata
  https://amzn.to/2WpfG64

• Pencil Me In by Christina R Wodtke
  https://amzn.to/2IgnMUC

• The Art of Explanation: Making your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand Paperback by Lee LeFever
  https://amzn.to/2WJtQ1c

• Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (2nd Edition) by Dan M. Brown (Author)
  https://amzn.to/2ESR7nj
  

Up and Coming Topics

• Conversational Design by Erika Hall
  https://abookapart.com/products/conversational-design

• Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become by Peter Morville
  https://amzn.to/2WorEwH

• Design for Real Life by Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher
  https://abookapart.com/products/design-for-real-life

• Designing for Situation Awareness: An Approach to User-Centered Design by Mica R. Endsley
  https://amzn.to/2XrEMgS

Working as a Business Analyst requires a wide spectrum of skills, problem-solving abilities, and continual learning. These are a few books we recommend to all of our Business Analyst friends - to help expand your knowledge and give you new understanding and ideas that you can bring to your projects.