Back in September of last year, I posted a blog entry indicating that I was starting a wiki project to revise and update a book I originally wrote in 1989, under the title of Modern Structured Analysis. The new version is called Just Enough Structured Analysis (aka JESA), and the wiki is located here. For the next couple of weeks, I dutifully reported when one chapter, and then another and another, had been successfully uploaded to the wiki. But then I got distracted by other projects, deadlines, and client demands … but the uploading process continued.

And indeed, it finished a couple weeks ago, and I should have made some kind of announcement at the time. But I was off in Japan, blogging away about the state of the japanese software industry and my experiences with customer service in Japanese hotels. And once I returned to New York, I was once again deluged with projects and deadlines; and so it was only a day or two ago that it occurred to me that I should let everyone know that the JESA wiki is now fully available.

Completely unrelated to all of this, I decided to peek at the statistics from OpenTracker this morning to see which portions of my website were getting the most traffic. To my surprise, I found that 8 of the 20 most-popular pages were individual chapters from the JESA wiki, and another 7 were various articles from this blog. So, one way or another, news of the JESA wiki is beginning to spread …

Anyone can visit read the current state of the material; but to edit and revise any of the material, you have to register on the wiki. It’s absolutely free, and I don’t use the email addresses for any purpose whatsoever; the registration mechanism is simply to minimize the amount of spam.

Meanwhile, if you’d just like to read the book without getting involved in the wiki community, it’s available as a PDF download by clicking here. You’ll be taken to a registration page that simply asks for your name, email address, job title, country, and (optional) comments. Again, it’s absolutely free, and I don’t use the email addresses for any purpose other than possibly notifying you if an update to the book is available.

But if you suffered through all 600+ pages of Modern Structured Analysis in college, and if you swore that you could have written a much better book than that idiot Yourdon guy … well, now’s your chance. Head on over to the JESA wiki, and make it a better book for the next generation of suffering students!