<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <I>Beyond Requirements</I> </B> shows how to use business analysis practices and techniques to identify key business problems, find optimal solutions, and successfully implement them. Unlike most business analysis texts, it places analysis techniques in context, positioning them as a "means to the end" of solving organizational problems, not as an end in themselves.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Kent McDonald helps you integrate analysis with ideas and techniques from other domains to significantly increase your effectiveness. He also covers crucial topics ignored by many business analysis books, including enterprise analysis, stakeholder analysis, and linkages to agile methodologies.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">If you're a business analyst, McDonald will help you transform your role and deepen your value to the organization. If you aren't an analyst, McDonald will empower you to leverage analytical techniques to solve your own business problems, and increase your own impact on the enterprise. Whatever your role, <B> <I>Beyond Requirements</I> </B> will help you clarify hidden risks and opportunities, collaborate and measure progress more effectively, provide better decision-making support, and formulate more successful strategy.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P>