About the job of Business Analyst in general

• Business Analysis for Beginners: Jump-Start Your BA Career in Four Weeks – M. Elgendy.
• The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software And Business Teams Develop And Manage Requirements – E. Gottesdiener
• BAtimes is a resource that has lots of useful articles, webinars, blogs, and business analysis news
• Business Analysis Community & Resources | Modern Analyst 
• Business Analyst Training for Beginners/YouTube 
• How to become a Business Analyst – a podcast with valuable advice for beginners in BA
• 10 Skills Every Business Analyst Needs To Succeed
• With Business Analysis, Soft Skills are the New Hard Skills
• Business Analysis Excellence Pty Ltd/YouTube
• Business analyst: a profession and a mindset – Y. Kosarenko

Software development methodologies (Waterfall, RUP, and Agile)

• SDLC - Agile Model – describes an Agile methodology and iterative approach in software development
• From Waterfall to Agile Tutorial for Beginners/YouTube 
• What is RUP Methodology   

Software requirements. Kinds of requirements and their hierarchy

• Quality Attributes – non-functional requirements, quality attributes.
• 15 Tips For Writing Better Requirements – Business Analyst Learnings
• Functional vs Non-Functional Requirements – the crucial differences between functional and non-functional requirements

Modeling (UML and BPMN)

• The Unified Modeling Language User Guide – G. Booch, J. Rumbaugh, I. Jacobson
• BPMN Tutorial for Beginners – examples of simple process descriptions using BPMN

Basics of software requirements documentation (User Stories and Use Cases)

• Writing Effective Use Cases – A. Cockburn
• User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development – M. Cohn
• User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product – J. Patton 

Prototyping user interface

• Wireframe Shapes In MS Visio
• About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design – A. Cooper.
• Sketches, Wireframes, Prototypes. Levels of fidelity and what to expect from each

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