ABSTRACT
Th is chapter reviews the standards that will be used as a foundation for the rest of the book. While many organizations strive toward implementing standard processes, this is often not as easy to do as it sounds. Th ere are many organizations defi ning standards, and these standards are often diff erent from each other. How to select the “best” standard? In this book the selection of which standards to use was based on what seems to have the strongest following today, as well as what I believe will be the dominating standards in the future. In addition, because this book was written in the United States, the standards will be U.S.-centric. Regardless of which standards are used in your organization, it is important that the whole organization has the same defi nitions and the same processes. If not, business analysis (and project management) will be almost impossible to do in an effi cient manner.
