Chapter 6 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here. This chapter discusses major issues in systems development, and while it was updated in 2000, it definitely needs another round of updating. I’ll plan to look at this chapter more carefully in the coming days, but in the meantime, everyone else is invited to pitch in and make it better. I’ve made a few changes to the wiki version already, by converting some of the entries in the “References” section, at the end of the chapter, into hyperlinks pointing to the Amazon web page describing the cited book.

As mentioned previously, I’ll probably continue moving forward through the remaining chapters, at an average rate of a chapter a day. It will probably take another few weeks to upload all of the material from the HTML-based manuscript, which is still on my website here.

In the meantime, you are welcome to start correcting, updating, revising, and improving the material that’s already on the wiki. I’ve been busy with about a dozen other projects recently, and have not yet had the chance to start making my own edits — but I plan to do so as soon as I get a spare moment.

Of course, the wiki environment (we’re using MediaWiki for this initiative) provides the facility for adding comments and discussion; but if you’d prefer to make such comments outside the wiki environment, you’re welcome to add comments to this blog posting, or send email directly to me at “ed (at) yourdon (dot) com”.