About the job of Business Analyst in general

1. Business Analysis for Beginners: Jump-Start Your BA Career in Four Weeks – M. Elgendy.
2. The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software And Business Teams Develop And Manage Requirements – E. Gottesdiener
3. Software Requirements (3rd edition) by Karl Wiegers
4. Business analyst: a profession and a mindset – Y. Kosarenko
5. BAtimes is a resource that has lots of useful articles, webinars, blogs, and business analysis news
6. Business Analysis Community & Resources | Modern Analyst 
7. Business Analyst Training for Beginners/YouTube 
8. 10 Skills Every Business Analyst Needs To Succeed
9. With Business Analysis, Soft Skills are the New Hard Skills
10. Business Analysis Excellence Pty Ltd/YouTube

Software development methodologies (Waterfall, RUP, and Agile)

1. SDLC - Agile Model – describes an Agile methodology and iterative approach in software development
2. The Scrum Guide - the Home of Scrum founded by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber
3. From Waterfall to Agile Tutorial for Beginners/YouTube 

Software requirements. Kinds of requirements and their hierarchy

1. Quality Attributes – non-functional requirements, quality attributes.
2. 15 Tips For Writing Better Requirements – Business Analyst Learnings
3. Functional vs Non-Functional Requirements – the crucial differences between functional and non-functional requirements

Modeling (UML and BPMN)

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

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

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

Prototyping user interface

1. About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design – A. Cooper.
2. Sketches, Wireframes, Prototypes. Levels of fidelity and what to expect from each

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