Today as Business Analysts we are experiencing a huge change on our role in the organization, our main role has been characterized as tactical (strictly follow the process) but now the organizations are also using the Business Analyst role to align and drive organizational strategy.

Software development frameworks will provide you structure and direction to develop software in a particular or preferred way like “Agile” or “Plan-driven”, but it is up to you to decide what is the best way to do it; and that is the key difference between the two.

"Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" is a very interesting book, since it contains a lot of best practices and advices for programmers. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to improve his/her code. Here’s a fragment from the book which I find very compelling: