The Business Analyst/Project Manager A New Partnership for Managing Complexity and Uncertainty

by Wysocki, Robert K.

ISBN13: 9780470767443

ISBN10: 0470767448

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 2010-09-28

Publisher(s): Wiley

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Summary

This book is the first to take a critical look at the two professions, Business Analyst(BA) and Project manager(PM). It compares the similarities and differences of their roles and responsibilities and then shows how the decision on which to use should be based on the type of project, staff skills profile, internal organizational environment and prevailing market conditions. These are all determinants of whether separate BA and PM professionals or the merged BA/PM professional are the best choice for staffing a project. The popular opinion favors separate BA nad PM professionals but this book presents conditions under which that may not be the best choice.

Author Biography

Robert K. Wysocki, PhD, has over forty years of experience as a project management consultant and trainer, information systems manager, systems and management consultant, author, training developer, and provider. He is the founder of Enterprise Information Insights, Inc., a project management consulting and training practice. He has written seventeen books on project management and information systems management.

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Historical Context	p. 4
Areas of PM and BA Overlap	p. 5
Context	p. 8
How This Book Is Organized	p. 9
Who Should Read This Book	p. 10
How You Will Benefit from This Book	p. 12
Project Manager and Business Analyst Project Life Cycle Collaboration	p. 15
Historical Perspective	p. 16
PMs, BAs, and Projects	p. 18
Putting It AU Together	p. 41
A Generic Dual-Career-Path Model	p. 43
A Dual-Career-Path Position Family	p. 43
Using the Dual-Career-Path Model	p. 50
Putting It AJJ Together	p. 61
Project Manager and Business Analyst Position Family	p. 63
PM and BA Position Landscape	p. 65
Organizational Placement of the PM and BA	p. 77
Putting It All Together	p. 77
Project Manager and Business Analyst Skill Profiles	p. 79
BA and PM Proficiency Model	p. 80
Selecting an Assessment Approach	p. 81
Skill Assessment Process	p. 86
Career and Professional Development Program	p. 87
Project Portfolio Management Process	p. 91
Training Curriculum Design, Development, and Scheduling	p. 94
Resource Planning Process	p. 95
Resource Management Process	p. 95
Putting It All Together	p. 95
The Project Landscape	p. 97
Project Landscape	p. 98
Project Complexity and Uncertainty	p. 99
Q1 Projects	p. 106
Q2 Projects	p. 112
Q3 Projects	p. 118
Q4 Projects	p. 120
Project Landscape with Project Management Models	p. 122
Putting It All Together	p. 123
Integrating the Project Manager and Business Analyst into the Landscape	p. 125
Strengths, Weaknesses, Challenges, and Opportunities of PM and BA integration	p. 126
Mapping the PMs and BAs into the Project Landscape	p. 137
When Should One Professional Have Both Project Management and Business Analysis Responsibility on the Same Project?	p. 140
Putting It All Together	p. 145
PM/BA Career and Professional Development	p. 147
Examples of PM/BA Job Opportunities	p. 147
PDP Contents	p. 155
A Deeper Look into the PM/BA Landscape	p. 158
Organizational Support 166 PMO, BA Center of Excellence and BA Community of Practice	p. 167
Putting It All Together	p. 176
In Conclusion: A Call to Action	p. 179
A System to Prepare PM/BA Professional	p. 179
A Call to Action	p. 182
Skill/Proficiency-Level Matrices for the Eight PM/BA Position Levels in the Project Management Landscape	p. 185
PM and BA Training Provider Courses	p. 217
PM/BA Curriculum	p. 223
About the Author	p. 229
Index	p. 231
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