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The following list may be of interest to candidates taking courses and examinations in the BCS
BSD qualifications. Note that some of the books listed here may be currently out of print.
However, these might be obtainable through libraries or second hand via, for example,
http://www.amazon.co.uk
Benefits Management and Business Acceptance............................................................1

Business Analysis (Foundation Certificate)......................................................................1
Business Analysis Practice ..............................................................................................2
Commercial Awareness ...................................................................................................3
Data Management Essentials ..........................................................................................3
Enterprise and Solution Architecture ...............................................................................3
Integrating Off-the-Shelf Software Solutions....................................................................4
IT-Enabled Business Change (Foundation Certificate) ....................................................5
Modelling Business Processes ........................................................................................5
Requirements Engineering ..............................................................................................6
Systems Development Essentials....................................................................................7
Systems Development (Foundation Certificate)...............................................................8
Systems Design Techniques ...........................................................................................9
Systems Modelling Techniques (Structured Techniques Version).................................10
Systems Modelling Techniques (UML Version) .............................................................10
Benefits Management and Business Acceptance

Title: Benefits Management: Delivering Value from IS and IT Investments
Author: John Ward and Elizabeth Daniel
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Publication Date: November 2005
ISBN: 978-0470094631
Title: The Effective Measurement and Management of IT Costs and Benefits (3rd Edition)
Author: Dan Remenyi, Arthur Money and Frank Bannister
Publisher: CIMA Publishing
Publication Date: February 2007
ISBN: 0750683287
Title: Managing Successful Programmes, Office for Government and Commerce
Author: Office for Government and Commerce (OGC)
URL: http://www.msp-officialsite.com
Title: Software Testing: An ISEB Foundation (2nd Edition)
Author: Brian Hambling (Ed), Peter Morgan, Angelina Samaroo, Geoff Thompson, Peter Williams
Publisher: BCS
Publication Date: October 2010
ISBN: 978-1906124762
URL: http://shop.bcs.org
Business Analysis (Foundation Certificate)

Title: Business Analysis (2nd Edition)
Author: Debra Paul, Donald Yeates and James Cadle
Publisher: BCS
Publication Date: July 2010
ISBN: 9781906124618
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Business Analysis Practice

Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 9781906124618
Title: Business Analysis Techniques: 72 Essential Tools for Success
Author: James Cadle, Debbie Paul and Paul Turner
Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 9781906124236
Title: Systems Thinking, Systems Practice
Author: Peter Checkland
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0471986062
Title: Learning for Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and Its
Use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students
Author: Peter Checkland and John Poulter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470025549
Title: Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers
Author: Michael C Jackson
Publication Date: September 2003
ISBN: 0470845228
Title: The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action
Author: Robert S Kaplan and David P Norton
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
ISBN: 0875846513
Title: Exploring Corporate Strategy (7th Edition)
Author: Gerry Johnson, Kevan Scholes and Richard Whittington
Publisher: Financial Times / Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780273651123
Title: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (2nd Edition)
Author: Peter M Senge
Publisher: Random House Business
Publication Date: April 2006
ISBN: 1905211201
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Commercial Awareness
Title: Organizational Behaviour
Author: Prof David A Buchanan and Dr Andrzej A Huczynski
Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
Publication Date: May 2010
ISBN: 0273728598
Title: Finance for IT Decision Makers: A Practical Handbook for Buyers, Sellers and
Managers
Author: Michael Blackstaff
Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 1902505735
Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 9781906124236
Data Management Essentials

Title: Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing
Author: Keith Gordon
Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 978-1902505848
Title: Practical Data Migration
Author: John Morris
Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 978-1902505718
Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 9781906124618
Enterprise and Solution Architecture

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Integrating Off-the-Shelf Software Solutions

Title: A Guide to Software Package Evaluation and Selection: The R2ISC Method
Author: Nathan Hollander
Publisher: Amacom
ISBN: 978-0814473375
Title: ITIL Service Transition
Author: Shirley Lacy and Ivor Macfarlane
Publisher: TSO
ISBN: 011331048X
Title: Configuration Management
Author: Shirley Lacy and David Norfolk
Publisher: BCS
Publication Date: June 2010
ISBN: 1906124582
Title: An Introduction to Database Systems
Author: C J Date
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321189566
Title: Next Generation Application Integration
Author: David Linthicum
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Publication Date: August 2003
ISBN: 0201844567
Title: IT Architecture and Middleware
Author: Chris Britton and Peter Bye
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0321246942
Title: UML 2 and the Unified Process
Author: Jim Arlow and Ila Neustadt
ISBN: 0321321278
Title: Requirements Analysis and Systems Design
Author: Leszek Maciaszek
ISBN: 0321440366
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IT-Enabled Business Change (Foundation Certificate)

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Modelling Business Processes

Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 9781906124618
Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 9781906124236
Title: Business Process Change (2nd Edition)
Author: Paul Harmon
Publisher: Morgan Kaufman
ISBN: 0123741521
Title: Improving Performance: How to manage the white space on the organisation chart
Author: Geary A Rummler and Alan P Brache
Publisher: Jossey Bass
ISBN: 0787900907
Title: Workflow Modeling (2nd Edition)
Author: Alec Sharpe And P McDermott
Publisher: Artech House
ISBN: 1596931922
Title: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organisation (2nd Edition)
Author: Peter Senge
Publisher: Random House Business
ISBN: 1905211201
Title: Competitive Advantage
Author: Michael Porter
Publisher: The Free Press
Publication Date: January 2004
ISBN: 0743260872
Title: Six Sigma Way Team Fieldbook: An Implementation Guide for Process Improvement Teams
Author: Peter S Pande, Robert P Neuman and Roland R Cavanagh
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Publication Date: January 2002
ISBN: 9780071373142
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Requirements Engineering
Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 9781906124618
Title: Mastering the Requirements Process
Author: Suzanne Robertson and James Robertson
ISBN: 978-0201360462
Title: Writing Effective Use Cases
Author: Alistair Cockburn
Publication Date: October 2000
ISBN: 0201702258
Title: User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
Author: Mike Cohn
Publication Date: March 2004
ISBN: 9780321205681
Title: Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques
Author: Gerald Kotonya and Ian Sommerville
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471972088
Title: Use Case Modeling
Author: Kirt Bittner and Ian Spence
ISBN: 9780201709131
Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 9781906124236
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Systems Development Essentials

Title: Introducing Systems Development
Author: Steve Skidmore and Malcolm Eva
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 0333973690
Title: Systems Analysis and Design
Author: Donald Yeates and Tony Wakefield
Publisher: FT Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0273655361
Title: Systems Analysis and Design: A Comparison of Structured Methods
Author: Dot J Tudor and Ian J Tudor
ISBN: 033372139X
Title: DSDM: Business Focused Development (2nd Edition)
Author: DSDM Consortium with Jennifer Stapleton
ISBN: 9780321112248
Title: Agile Software Development with Scrum
Author: Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle
ISBN: 978-0130676344
Title: The DSDM Atern Handbook
Author: DSDM Consortium
Publisher: Whitehorse Press
ISBN: 0-9544832-2-7
Title: Managing Software Quality
Author: Brian Hambling
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 978-0077090395
Title: The UML Use Guide
Author: Jacobsen, Booch and Rumbaugh
ISBN: 9780321267979
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Systems Development (Foundation Certificate)

Publisher: BCS
ISBN: 9781906124618
ISBN: 0333973690
Title: Systems Analysis and Design (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0273655361
Title: Mastering the Requirements Process
Author: Suzanne Robertson and James Robertson
ISBN: 9780201360462
Title: Systems Analysis and Design: A comparison of Structured Methods
Author: Dot J Tudor and Ian J Tudor
ISBN: 033372139X
Title: DSDM: Business Focused Development (2nd Edition)
Author: DSDM Consortium with Jennifer Stapleton
ISBN: 9780321112248
Title: UML 2 and the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (2nd Edition)
Publication: June 2005
ISBN: 0321321278
Title: Writing Better Requirements
Author: Ian F Alexander and Richard Stevens
ISBN: 0321131630
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Title: Scenarios, Stories and Use Cases

Author: Ian Alexander and Neil Maiden
ISBN: 0470861940
Title: Requirements by Collaboration
Author: Ellen Gottesdiener
ISBN: 9780201786064
Systems Design Techniques

Title: UML 2 & the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (2nd
Edition)
ISBN: 0321321278
Title: Design Patterns- Elements of Reusable object-oriented software
Author: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides
Publication: October 1994
ISBN: 0201633612
Title: Requirements Analysis and Systems Design (3rd Edition)
Author: Leszek Maciaszek
ISBN: 0321440366
Title: Classical and Object-Oriented Software Engineering (8th Edition)
Author: Stephen Schach
Publication: December 2010
ISBN: 0071222081
Publication: August 2003
ISBN: 0333973690
Title: Systems Analysis and Design
Author: Don Yeates and Tony Wakefield
Publication: September 2003
ISBN: 0273655361
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Systems Modelling Techniques (Structured Techniques Version)

Title: Systems Analysis and Design (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 9780273655361
Title: Practical SSADM Version 4+ A Complete Tutorial Guide (2nd Edition)
Author: Philip Weaver, Nick Lanbrou and Matthew Walkley
Publisher: FT Pitman
ISBN: 9780273626756
Title: An Introduction to SSADM Version 4
Author: Caroline Ashworth and Laurence Slater
ISBN: 0077077253
Title: SSADM Version 4: A Users Guide (Limited Availability)
Author: Malcolm Eva
ISBN: 0077079590
Title: SSADM Version 4: A Practical Approach
Author: Mike Goodland and Caroline Slater
ISBN: 007709073X
Systems Modelling Techniques (UML Version)

ISBN: 0333973690
Title: UML and the Unified Process
ISBN: 9780321321275
Title: Object Oriented Systems Analysis and Design Using UML
Author: Simon Bennett, Steve McRobb and Ray Farmer
Publisher: McGraw Hill
ISBN: 0077092444
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Benefits Management and Business Acceptance............................................................1

Benefits Management and Business Acceptance

Business Analysis (Foundation Certificate)

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Business Analysis Practice

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Data Management Essentials

Enterprise and Solution Architecture

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Integrating Off-the-Shelf Software Solutions

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IT-Enabled Business Change (Foundation Certificate)

Modelling Business Processes

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Systems Development Essentials

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Systems Development (Foundation Certificate)

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Title: Scenarios, Stories and Use Cases

Systems Design Techniques

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Systems Modelling Techniques (Structured Techniques Version)

Systems Modelling Techniques (UML Version)

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