BSD RECOMMENDED READING LIST
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, Amazon.co.uk.
Benefits Management and Business Acceptance
Benefits Management: Delivering Value from IS and IT Investments
John Ward and Elizabeth Daniel, Wiley, ISBN 978-0470094631
Benefits Realisation Management
Gerald Bradley, Gower, ISBN 978-0566086878
The Business Case Guide (2nd Edition)
Marty J. Schmidt, Solution Matrix, ISBN 9781929500017
www.solutionmatrix.com
Software Testing
Brian Hambling (ed), BCS, ISBN 9781902505794
www.bcs.org/books
Business Analysis (Foundation Certificate)
Business Analysis
Debra Paul and Donald Yeates (eds.), BCS, ISBN 978- 1902505602
www.bcs.org/books/businessanalysis
Business Analysis Essentials
Business Analysis
Debra Paul and Donald Yeates (eds.), BCS, ISBN 978- 1902505602
www.bcs.org/books/businessanalysis
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice
Peter Checkland, John Wiley and Sons
Systems: Concepts, Methodologies and Applications
Brian Wilson, John Wiley and Sons
Practical Soft Systems Analysis
David Patching, Pitman
Re-engineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
Michael Hammer and James Champy, Nicholas Brealey
The Business Context volume of Business Systems Development with SSADM
CCTA/The Stationery Office
Systems: Concepts, Methodologies and Applications
Brian Wilson, John Wiley & Sons
Finance for IT Decision Makers, Michael Blackstaff, BCS. ISBN 978 1 902 505 73 2
www.bcs.org/books/finance
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Change, Configuration and Release Management Essentials
The syllabus and sample paper is based on topics in ISO 10007, Quality management and
quality system elements: Guidelines for configuration management. Examples of suitable
combinations are:
Specific
topics/modules
IT Services and
Infrastructure
Management
Delivering Information
Systems and IT Service
Management
Change, Configuration and Release Management
requirements specified in:
 BS 15000 IT Service Management
 OGC’s1 ITIL Service Support
 OGC’s PRINCE 2 Managing Successful Projects
 ISO/IEC 12207:1995 Standard for information Technology Software Life Cycle Processes - Life Cycle Data
 BS 15000 IT Service Management standard
Software Development
 TickIT Guide - Using ISO 9001:2000 for Software Quality
Management System Construction, Certification and
Continual Improvement, that is compatible with ISO/IEC
12207:1995 Standard for information Technology - Software
Life Cycle Processes
 BS 15000 IT Service Management standard
Software Configuration
 IEEE2 Standard 828-1990, Software Configuration
Management
Management Plans
 ANSI/IEEE Standard 1042-1987, Guide to Software
Configuration Management.
Aerospace and Defence
 DEFSTAN 05-57 Configuration Management of Defence
Materiel
Applications
 OGC’s ITIL Applications Management
Management
 OGC’s ITIL Service Support
Product Configuration
 EIA3 649 that is compatible with EIA 632, Processes for
Management
Engineering a System and IEEE /EIA 12207.0, 12207.1 &
12207.2, Industry Implementation of International Standard
ISO/IEC 12207: 1995- Standard for information Technology
- Software Life Cycle Processes
Capability Maturity Model  The Capability Maturity Models CMM and CMM-I: Carnegie
Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute
1
UK Office of Government Commerce
2
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
3
Electronic Industries Alliance
Data Management Essentials
Principles of Data Management: Facilitating Information Sharing
Keith Gordon, BCS, ISBN 978-1902505848
www.bcs.org/books
Practical Data Migration
John Morris, BCS ISBN 978-1902505718
www.bcs.org/books
Business Analysis
Debra Paul and Donald Yeates (eds.), BCS, ISBN 978-1902505602
www.bcs.org/books/businessanalysis
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Development and Delivery (Foundation Certificate)
Business Analysis
Debra Paul and Donald Yeates (eds.), BCS, ISBN 978- 1902505602
www.bcs.org/books/businessanalysis
The Business Case Guide (2nd Edition)
Marty J. Schmidt, Solution Matrix, ISBN 9781929500017
www.solutionmatrix.com
Software Testing
Brian Hambling (ed), BCS, ISBN 9781902505794
www.bcs.org/books
Introducing Systems Development
Steve Skidmore and Malcolm Eva, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0333973690
Systems Analysis and Design
Donald Yeates and Tony Wakefield, FT Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0273655361
Estimating for Software Development
Applied Software Measurement
Capers Jones, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0070328266
Software Cost Estimating with CoCoMo II
Barry W Boehm, Chris Abts, A Winsor Brown, Sunita Chulani, Bradford K Clark, Ellis
Horowitz, Ray Madachy, Donald Reifer, Bert Steece (authors), Prentice-Hall,
ISBN 978-0130266927
Measuring the Software Process: A Practical Guide to Functional Measurements
David Garmus and David Herron, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 978-0133490022
Sizing and Estimating Software In Practice
Stephen Treble and Neil Douglas, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0077076207
Software Metrics
Norman Fenton and Shari Pleeger, Thompson Computer Press, ISBN 978-0534954253
Practical Software Measurement
Bob Hughes, McGraw-Hill, ISBN978-0077094591
Estimating Software Costs
Capers Jones, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 978-0071483001
Software Engineering Economics
Barry W Boehm, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0138221225
Controlling Software Projects
Tom DeMarco, Yourdon Press, ISBN 978-0131717114
Estimating with Mark II Function Point Analysis
Ian Drummond, CCTA/The Stationery Office, ISBN 978-0113305780
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P Brooks Jr, Addison Wesley, ISBN 978-0201006506
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Integrating Off-the-Shelf Software Solutions
A Guide to Software Package Evaluation and Selection: The R2ISC Method
Nathan Hollander, Amacom, ISBN 978-0814473375
Enterprise and Solution Architecture
Refer to the reading list for this qualification by visiting:
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.24011
IT-Enabled Business Change (Foundation Certificate)
The New, Completely Revised Understanding Organisations
Charles Handy, Allen Lane, ISBN 978-0713997798
Business Analysis
Debra Paul and Donald Yeates (eds.), BCS, ISBN 978- 1902505602
www.bcs.org/books/businessanalysis
Strategic Planning for Information Systems
John Ward and Joe Peppard, Wiley, ISBN 978-0470841471
Modelling Business Processes
Business Process Change
Paul Harmon, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 9781558607583
Improving Performance
Geary A Rummler and Alan P Brache, Jossey Bass, ISBN 978-0787900908
Process Mapping
V Daniel Hunt, Wiley, ISBN 978-0471132813
The Organisational Context
Professional Issues in Information Technology, by Frank Bott, BCS, ISBN 978-1902505654
www.bcs.org/books
A Manager’s Guide to IT Law, by Jeremy Holt and Jeremy Newton (eds), BCS, ISBN 9781902505557
www.bcs.org/books
Finance for IT Decision Makers, by Michael Blackstaff, BCS, ISBN 978-1902505732
www.bcs.org/books
Business Analysis, by Debra Paul and Donald Yeates (eds), BCS, ISBN: 978-1902505602
www.bcs.org/books
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Requirements Engineering
Requirements Engineering,
Gerald Kotonya and Ian Somerville, Wiley, ISBN 978-0471972082
Requirements Engineering,
Elizabeth Hull, Ken Jackson, Jeremy Dick, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-1852338794
Mastering the Requirements Process
Suzanne Robertson and James Robertson, Addison Wesley, ISBN 978-0201360462
Requirements Analysis
D. Hay, Prentice-Hall, 2003
Writing Better Requirements
Ian F Alexander and Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0321131630
Scenarios, Stories and Use Cases
I Alexander and N Maiden, Wiley, 2004
Exploring Requirements, Quality before Design
D. Gause and G. Weinberg, Dorset House 1989
Requirements Engineering, A Good Practice Guide
I Sommerville and P Sawyer, Wiley, 1997
Introducing Systems Development
Steve Skidmore and Malcolm Eva, Palgrave, ISBN 978-0333973690
Systems Development Essentials
Introducing Systems Development
Steve Skidmore and Malcolm Eva, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0333973690
Systems Analysis and Design
Donald Yeates and Tony Wakefield, FT Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0273655361
Systems Analysis and Design: A comparison of Structured Methods
D J Tudor & I J Tudor, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-033369339 6
Inside RAD: How to build fully functional computer systems in 90 days or less
J Kerr and R Hunter, McGraw-Hill, 1994
Rapid Application Development
J Martin, Maxwell Macmillan International Editions, 1991, ISBN 00203767758
DSDM: Business Focuses Development (2nd Edition)
Jennifer Stapleton (ed), Addison Wesley, ISBN 9780321112248
Agile Software Development with Scrum
Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0130676344
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
Steve C McConnell, Microsoft Press
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Systems Design and Implementation Techniques
Introducing Systems Development
Steve Skidmore and Malcolm Eva, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0333973690
Systems Analysis and Design
Donald Yeates and Tony Wakefield, FT Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0273655361
Database and Physical Process Design volume of Business Systems Development with
SSADM
CCTA,/The Stationery Office, ISBN 978-0113308760
User Centred Design volume of Business Systems Development with SSADM
CCTA/The Stationery Office, ISBN 978-0113308736
Data Modelling volume of Business Systems Development with SSADM
CCTA/The Stationery Office, ISBN 978-011330871X
Systems Modelling Techniques
(Structured techniques version)
Systems Analysis and Design
Donald Yeates and Tony Wakefield, FT Prentice Hall, ISBN 978-0273655361
Practical SSADM Version 4+ Second Edition (1998)
Philip L Weaver, Nicholas Lambrou and Matthew Walkley. FT Pitman ISBN 978-0273626756
An Introduction to SSADM Version 4 (limited availability)
Caroline Ashworth and Laurence Slater, McGraw-Hill
SSADM Version 4: A User’s Guide (limited availability)
Malcolm Eva, McGraw-Hill
SSADM Version 4: A Practical Approach (out of print)
Mike Goodland & Caroline Slater, McGraw-Hill
(UML version)
Introducing Systems Development
Steve Skidmore and Malcolm Eva, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0333973690
UML2 and the Unified Process
Jim Arlow and Ila Neustadt, Addison Wesley, ISBN 978-0321321275
Object – Oriented Systems Analysis and Design Using UML
Simon Bennett, Steve McRobb, Ray Farmer, McGraw Hill, ISBN 978-0077092444
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