This innovative guide shows how the business analyst role can be executed in collaboration with the project or program manager role to produce higher quality products, requirements, and success rates, with solutions that deliver business value and products and services that better satisfy stakeholder needs. It evaluates the PM and BA roles current contrasting perceptions and defines the roles they should fulfil. Table of contents: Chapter 1 : Challenges Related to Project Management and Business Analysis. Chapter 2 : Misconceptions of the roles of the PM and the BA Chapter 3 : Growing and integrating the professions Chapter 4 : Enterprise Analysis Portfolio Management and the PMO Chapter 5 : Communication and Stakeholder Expectations Management Chapter 6 : Requirements Definition Chapter 7 : Assumptions, Constraints Dependencies, and Risks Chapter 8 : Resource Management Chapter 9 : Two Types of change: Project and Organizational change Management Chapter 10: Project Quality, Recovery, and Lessons Learned Chapter 11 : Building a Partnership: Shared Responsibility Throughout - putting It all Together Index