Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM: A Practical Guide For Business Analysts

BPM relies on cutting out the middle man as much as possible, only this time the emphasis is on a strong partnership between the end user and the BA working on iterations towards the final software:

The first and most obvious limitation is that the Agile development methodology does away with the Business Analyst.

the right project, there is no doubt that Agile development can deliver valuable software more successfully, and more quickly, than the waterfall approach.

Business Process Management is the natural evolution and convergence of several powerful forces within the fields of software development methodology, enterprise application technology, and management theory. These underlying forces have all matured and converged at the right time for a productive fusion, which we know as business process management.