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The Killer Application of Software Modelling
From my experience as a business analyst (BA) I would say: checking or transforming models is interesting and important, but the real killer application of a model in software development is (simply) talking about it. Continue reading
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Tagged Business Analyst, customer collaboration, IIBA, IREB, managing complexity, model, Modelling, Requirements, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Engineering, Requirements Modeling, software development, software modelling, software requirements
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Categories of semantic Models by Stachowiak
Categorisation by example of semantic models, i.e. models as we use them in software engineering etc, according to Herbert Stachowiak. Continue reading
Posted in Epistemology, Herbert Stachowiak, Requirements
Tagged abstraction, Allgemeine Modelltheorie, empirical models, Finite Model Theory, formal models, General Model Theory, Herbert Stachowiak, Modelling, modelling theory, Requirements Modeling, scientific models, semantic model, semantics, Semiology, Semiotics, Semology, Stachowiak
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Stachowiak on semantic Requirements Modelling
Excerpt of Herbert Stachowiak’s “Allgemeine Modelltheorie” (General Model Theory). Although this is on empirical-scientific models, it provides a foundation of semantic requirements modelling. Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction, Allgemeine Modelltheorie, empirical models, Finite Model Theory, formal models, General Model Theory, Herbert Stachowiak, jackson zave, michael a. jackson, Modelling, modelling theory, pamela zave, Requirements Modeling, scientific models, semantic model, semantics, Stachowiak
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Splitting the Requirements Atom
Atomicity is considered an important property of requirements. However, if we take a deeper look, we see the concept of atomicity lacks in rigour. Is e.g. the atomicity concept of Logic suitable here? Continue reading
Modeling & Abstraction at the very heart of Business Requirements Analysis
From industrial practice we know a BA definitely adds a lot of value to an IT project. So, now we try to conceptualise this in contrast to the Biz Engineer’s and IT Architect’s role. As we’ll see, a BA’s special benefit is mainly based on abstraction (and thus modeling). Continue reading
Henry Ford and Business Analysts
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford –
Isn’t this a nice litte example to show what Business Analysts are good for? Continue reading
Making use of IEEE 830 for Requirements Engineering
IEEE 830 provides eight quite abstract characteristics for good requirements, like correctness, completeness, traceablity etc. Continue reading
The Future of Software Development
We lack tools or languages to express and reason about these distributed, extended, fragmented systems. This can be achieved by modeling. Continue reading
