Business Systems Development

Business System Analysis

System analysis is such a broad term, that if you ask five systems analysts to define the term, you end up with 20 different definitions.  So, we shall take the Peter  Drucker approach and simply focus on two items:  
  1. What is your business?
  2. How is your business doing?
This page focuses on these two questions and provides links to best business practices, current events, or other tools that enable us to understand our business and how to improve them.  A good starting point is a System Definition , or in author David Ruble's term, a context diagram.
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System| System Development  | Analysis Techniques | SYSTEMS MODELING |  System design
 
Development Methodologies - Waterfall (SDLC), RAD, Agile/Xtremme Programming, BPR 
 
Software Engineering | Software reuseability |  Software metrics |  Personal Memory Extender (PEMEX) 
 
CASE Tools, Development tools |  HCI Tools | File Formats | Coding Standards
 
Intelligent Agents | Decision Support Systems

Architecture |SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE :  ADL TOOLS | TOGA Architecture Model
STRATEGIC PLANNING:  Benchmarking   Balanced Scorecarding  Boston Matrix  Cliff Bowan's 
TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT LINKS | Article Reviews | 
 
GLOSSARIES: 
Glossary of internet terms |  Dr. T's Internet Glossary |  Square one Glossary of   Internet Terms | WebQuest Web Glosssary |  
ASCII = American National Standard Code for Information Interchange  EBCDIC = Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code Chart  |  Specialized IT Glossaries
 
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Architecture description languages (ADLs), seek to increase the understandability and reusability of architectural designs, and enable greater degrees of analysis.
Module Interconnection Languages (MILS), only describe the structure of an implemented system. 
ADLs also  typically address:
Component behavioral specification - component functionality, support for specifying both functional and non-functional (safety, security, reliability, and performance). Depending on the ADL, timing constraints, properties of component inputs and outputs, and data accuracy may all be specified.
Component protocol specification. Some-  ADLs, such as Wright and Rapide  support the specification of relatively complex component communication protocols. Other ADLs, such as UniCon, allow the type of a component to be specified (e.g., filter, process, etc.) which in turn restricts the type of connector that can be used with it.
Connector specification. ADLs contain structures for specifying properties of connectors, where connectors are used to define interactions between components. In Rapide, connector specifications take the form of partially-ordered event sequences, while in Wright, connector specifications are expressed using Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) language
Aesop - supports the specification and analysis of architectural styles (formal characterizations of common architectures such as pipe and filters, and client-server)
Rapide -  uses event posets to specify component interfaces and component interaction [
Wright - supports the specification and analysis of communication protocols 
MetaH – support  real-time avionics domain 
LILEAnna - for use with Ada and generalizes Ada's notion of generics
UniCon - addresses packaging and functional issues associated with components 
UML - 
REFERENCES:
Garlan, David & Shaw, Mary. "An Introduction to Software Architecture," 1-39. Advances in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Volume 2. New York, NY: World Scientific Press, 1993.
Garlan, D.; Allen, R.; & Ockerbloom, J. "Exploiting Style in Architectural Design Environments." SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 19, 5 (December 1994): 175-188.
Hoare, C.A.R. Communicating Sequential Processes. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall International, 1985.
Luckham, David C., et al. "Specification and Analysis of System Architecture Using Rapide." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 21, 6 (April 1995): 336-355
Shaw, Mary, et al. "Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 21, 6 (April 1995): 314-335
Software Architecture Technology Guide [online]. Available WWW <URL: http://www- ast.tds-gn.lmco.com/arch/guide.html> (1996).
Tracz, W. "LILEANNA: a Parameterized Programming Language," 66-78. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software Reuse. Lucca, Italy, March 24-26, 1993. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993.



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