Designated by PMI as Recommended Reading for Business Analysts! This innovative guide shows how the business analyst (BA) role can be executed in collaboration with the project or program manager (PM) role to produce higher quality products, requirements, and success rates, with solutions that deliver business value and products and services that better satisfy stakeholder needs. It evaluates the PM and BA roles current contrasting perceptions and defines the roles they should fulfill.

Inclusive Group Work offers an innovative approach to working with intervention groups and task groups by redefining the concept of diversity and reframing core group work concepts. Appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate courses, this book introduces readers to the foundations of group practice with an emphasis on social justice. The book presents diversity as a relational concept that is at the heart of all group interactions. Individual identity is complex, and in order for all members to be treated equally their individuality must be accepted and respected. Using this framework, the book discusses the values and ethics of social work with groups, explores the stages of group work including planning, and presents both basic and advanced skills such as conflict resolution and the use of self. Theories are put into practice in three chapters of case studies that show in-detail how diversity can be employed as a strength in multiple settings to achieve the wide variety of goals groups pursue. Through this new approach, students and practitioners alike will learn how to harness diversity to engage and maintain participation in inclusive group processes.

Do you chuckle, chortle or cackle? Are you more likely to smirk secretly, sneak out a snigger, or would you prefer to belt out a big belly laugh? Do you howl like a monkey, roar like a lion or snort like a pig? However you get the giggles, this hilarious collection of rude, ridiculous and rambunctious rhymes is sure to tickle your funny bone! The Book of Silly Rhymes is a collection of poems written to amuse and delight children in equal measure. Each rhyme is short, and can be read quickly and in any order with the aim of appealing to reluctant readers. The text has been printed in a font designed to be easily read by those with dyslexia.

When Pete the Parakeet's favourite person goes on holiday without him, he's left behind with the rest of the family. The trouble is, none of them like him! Pete has been mean to everyone, and now he finds himself with no one to play with. Pete's family are willing to give him a second chance - if he can change his ways. Will Pete realise that being the bird with the bad attitude won't get him anywhere? Don't miss this light-hearted, fun story, which carries a message for young readers about the importance of friendship and compassion. Pete the Cheeky Parakeet will bring lots of laughter and learning to story time! Cheryl Lee-White is a children's author, blogger and hobbyist photographer from Taunton, Somerset.

This is a fun informative activity book for all

Activities and games with information of farm animals and tractors

Sometimes the ocean hands you an unexpected wave. Travis Kelly wants nothing more than to win the world surfing championship and show up his rival, Kane, but when a horrible accident leaves him disabled, he finds himself floating in a world of misery. Surfing was his life. How will he cope? By drowning his sorrows in alcohol, he runs the risk of following in his dead-beat brother's footsteps-a path of addiction he despises, yet seems drawn toward. Adrift in a sea of self-destruction, Travis struggles between what makes the pain disappear, and what the surfer really wants-the ocean, the girl, and the union of his family. With a touch of Hawaiian culture, Liquid Comfort is a stirring tale of surf, addiction, determination and unconditional love. Hang on for a gnarly ride "There are many forms of comfort. Some will drown you. Others will keep you afloat."