Chapter 5 of “Structured Analysis” has been uploaded to the wiki

Chapter 5 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here. This chapter discusses the “project life cycle,” and while it was updated in 2000 to include some references to XP and agile methods, it definitely needs another round of updating. I’ll plan to [...]

Two more structured analysis chapters on the wiki

Chapters 3 and 4 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here.
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 [...]

Chapter 2 of Structured Analysis wiki has now been uploaded

Chapter 2 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here.
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 [...]

Chapter 1 of the Structured Analysis manuscript has been uploaded to the wiki

Chapter 1 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book has now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here.
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 [...]

Four more chapters on the Structured Analysis wiki!

In a flurry of activity, we’ve added four more chapters of material to the Structured Analysis wiki that we launched a day or two ago. In addition to the chapter on dataflow diagrams (which, for most of this year, has been the second most popular page on my website!), we’ve now got the following additional [...]

Structured Analysis wiki

With a great deal of help from my friends at dataLAB, I’ve started a wiki project to revise and update the Just Enough Structured Analysis manuscript that’s been sitting on my web site for the past several years. You can find it — and, hopefully, jump in and start participating, by clicking here.
Much has changed [...]

What’s a card reader? Context is everything

I ordered a Sanyo Xacti HD1 hi-def video camcorder a few days ago, and after telling myself that I couldn’t afford the distraction of playing with a new toy during the work-week, I finally opened the box yesterday and put all the pieces together. It’s an amazing piece of technology, small enough to fit in [...]

Everything Old is New Again

Everything old is new again: some thoughts on the renewed interest in structured analysis and modeling, and a recommendation to take a look at dynamic models