Successful Business Analysis Consulting: Strategies and Tips for Going It Alone

by Karl Wiegers

This volume in the Business Analysis Professional Development Series by renowned expert and best-selling author, Karl Wiegers, and a group of noteworthy contributors, provides experienced, advanced-level business analysis and project management practitioners with proven strategies and tips for making the successful transition from highly respected internal expert to a fulfilling and financially rewarding career in consulting.

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328 pages, Paperback

Published May 22, 2019

About the author

Karl Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact, a software development consulting and training company in Portland, Oregon. He has a PhD in organic chemistry. Karl is the author of 14 books, including Software Requirements Essentials (with Candase Hokanson), Software Development Pearls, The Thoughtless Design of Everyday Things, Software Requirements (with Joy Beatty), More About Software Requirements, Successful Business Analysis Consulting, and a forensic mystery novel titled The Reconstruction.

Karl has also written many articles on software development, design, project management, chemistry, military history, consulting, and self-help, as well as 18 songs. He has delivered hundreds of training courses, webinars, and conference presentations worldwide. When he's not at the keyboard, Karl enjoys wine tasting, volunteering (library and Meals on Wheels), playing guitar, recording songs (hear them at https://www.karlwiegers.com/songs.html), military history, and traveling.

You can reach Karl at https://www.ProcessImpact.com or https://www.KarlWiegers.com.

Reviews

[Golden Apple · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one book that I wish I had when I started out alone as a business analysis consultant four years ago! I really wish. Actually, the wisdom in it could have served me when I ventured out into the technology consulting world in 2007.

I LOVE its practicality. It covers virtually everything that created stress for me when I wasn't sure of how to start out, represent and lead my business of one when I did. Karl certainly takes the guesswork out of the whole experience and journey.

I also love the multi-sided perspectives that other veterans provided in the book. That really helped to balance things and make the book richer.

This is now my BA consulting Bible.

Thanks, Karl! I really appreciate your thought leadership on the BA practice and now, consulting.

[Mike Cohn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book for anyone looking to launch a successful career as a business analysis consultant. (But much of the advice is applicable to any technology or product development consultant.)

Chapters are practical and concise. You'll leave each knowing exactly what to do to advance your consulting career or to make it a reality.

I love that the author reached out to experts on specific topics and included chapters from them to augment his own experiences and expertise.

I searched for a book like this when I began my consulting career over 20 years ago and it didn't exist. I'm glad it now does.

[Randolph King · Rating 5 out of 5]

Karl is an excellent author, making things easy to understand and follow. When you read his work, you can hear him speaking to you, he writes very much the way he speaks.

I only read selective chapters of this book, but I got from it what I expected to learn. In those sections he addressed issues relative to writing. Everything form organization, topic selection, editing and publishing. The rest of the book may yet be beconing to me.