Welcome to the Just
Enough Structured Analysis project. This
is an update, condensation, and pragmatic revision
of my 1989 tome, Modern Structured
Analysis, which is still employed by malicious professors to torture innocent
students in universities around the world. You don’t have to be a rocket
scientist to appreciate that a lot has changed since the late 1980s — e.g.,
client-server
technology, the Internet/Web, wireless computing, the rise and fall of the dot-coms,
the growing popularity of object-oriented and component-based technologies,
etc. Hence the decision to update the material, and to rewrite what was
probably far too ponderous a tome (672 pages) even in the days when people
actually had enough
time to read books printed on dead trees, and then a calm period to contemplate
the metaphysical essence of the book. Today, we’re too busy to spend much
time
thinking about anything, and we’re also far too busy to read more than a couple
hundred pages of the bare essentials on any topic. What we want is “just
enough ... ” — enough to give us the basic idea, enough to get us started,
enough to give us a grounding in the fundamentals. That’s the motivation for Just
Enough Structured Analysis.
As with the last several
books I’ve written, this one will be posted on the
Web site on a chapter-by-chapter basis. I’m
interested in getting feedback, both positive and
negative; comments, suggestions, criticisms, and
anecdotes
will be more than welcome. If you send
me any material that looks so interesting that I want to excerpt it, quote
it, or incorporate
it verbatim into the manuscript, I’ll ask your permission first; and if you
provide any useful references, concepts, or ideas, I’ll be happy to provide
attribution so that everyone knows you’re the source.
If you think I’m missing
any topics, or if you think any of the chapters are
no longer relevant in today’s brave new world where
we’re all living in Internet
time, let me know — otherwise, feel free to plunge into the first chapter.
Happy
reading!
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Table of Contents for Just Enough Structured Analysis
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................( download
PDF -
213KB)
Chapter 2. The
Nature of Systems .................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 405KB)
Chapter 3. Players
in the Systems Game ......................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 331KB)
Chapter 4. Tools
of Modern Systems Analysis.............................................................................................................( download
PDF - 287KB)
Chapter 5. The
Project Life Cycle .................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 309KB)
Chapter 6. Major
Issues in Systems Development ......................................................................................................( download
PDF - 260KB)
Chapter 7. Changes
in Systems Analysis .....................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 223KB)
PART II: MODELING TOOLS
Chapter 8. Characteristics
of Modeling Tools .........................................................................................................( download
PDF - 203KB)
Chapter 9. Data
Flow Diagrams..................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 422KB)
Chapter 10. Data
Dictionaries ......................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 273KB)
Chapter 11. Process
Specifications...............................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 416KB)
Chapter 12. Entity-Relationship
Diagrams .................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 332KB)
Chapter 13. State-Transition
Diagram ........................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 250KB)
Chapter 14. Balancing
the Models ...............................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 270KB)
Chapter 15. Additional
Modeling Tools.......................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 276KB)
Chapter 16. Modeling
Tools for Project Management .............................................................................................( download
PDF - 230KB)
PART III: THE ANALYSIS PROCESS
Chapter 17.
The
Essential Model ..................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 252KB)
Chapter 18. The
Environmental Model ........................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 320KB)
Chapter 19. Building
a Preliminary Behavioral Model ...........................................................................................( download
PDF - 247KB)
Chapter 20. Finishing
the Behavioral Model .............................................................................................................( download
PDF - 405KB)
Chapter 21. The
User Implementation Model..............................................................................................................( download
PDF - 329KB)
PART IV: FOLLOW-ON ISSUES
Chapter 22.
Moving
Into Design ...................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 261KB)
Chapter 23. Programming
and Testing ........................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 276KB)
Chapter 24. Maintaining
the Specification ................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 214KB)
Chapter 25. The
Future of Systems Analysis ...............................................................................................................( download
PDF - 204KB)
APPENDICES
A. Automated
Tools ............................................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 304KB)
B. Estimating
Guidelines ...................................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 248KB)
C. Cost-Benefit
Calculations ............................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 246KB)
D. Walkthroughs
and Inspections ....................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 174KB)
E. Interviewing
and Data-Gathering Techniques .........................................................................................................( download
PDF - 220KB)
F. The YOURDON Press
Case Study ................................................................................................................................( download
PDF - 806KB)
G. The
Elevator System Case Study; Data
Dictionary .................................................................................................( download
PDF - 315KB)
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