Chapter 3

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Project management is a more mature discipline than business analysis, and the standards established for project management have been well defined by the Project Management Institute® (PMI). There is nothing contradictory to those standards in this chapter; project management for a business analyst is conceptually the same as any other type of project management. With that said, what this chapter emphasizes are the areas of project management that are most likely to be of interest to a business analyst; the chapter also looks at some of the unique challenges that the business ...

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