New book on Business Analysis

Co-edited by Assist director, Debra Paul, this book was published by the British Computer Society in June 2006. "Business Analysis" provides a practical introductory guide for anyone involved in business analysis and interested in improving the effectiveness of IT and its alignment with organisations' business objectives. It includes chapters by Assist trainers James Cadle and Malcolm Eva.

Project Management for Information Systems

The fifth edition of the best-selling book by AssistKD director James Cadle and Donald Yeates, published by FT Prentice Hall on 15th November 2007. Updated in many areas, including coverage of different types of IS project and new approaches to development, such as Agile, the structure of the book has also been reorganised, to group the various 'themes' of project management together.

Introducing Systems Development

Steve Skidmore has teamed up with Malcolm Eva to produce a successor to his best selling Introducing Systems Analysis and Introducing Systems Design.

Key points in Introducing Systems Development are:

• A focus on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) models, techniques and vocabulary. Some structured and traditional tecniques are retained as part of the analyst's toolkit.
• A recognition of the role of quality assurance and testing in the systems development process
• A recognition that many organisations now fulfil their information system requirements through purchasing software packages.The book looks at the advantages and disadvantages of this approach and presents a method for selecting between competing solutions.

The book also contains exercises and a set of slides and exercise solutions are available to bona-fide lecturers at http://www.palgrave.com.