K. Anderson & Associates

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DAF a b s t r a c t
 

The DSDM Consortium promotes nine principles of application development.  Unfortunately, the process of gathering and documenting user requirements often is not done in accordance with many of these principles.  Specifically, during analysis, developers often cannot or do not:
  • involve users actively, 
  • deliver products frequently, 
  • identify and document data and functional requirements iteratively and incrementally,
  • reverse changes to those models easily, and
  • integrate testing into analysis.

Ken Anderson has been involved in developing software since 1985, and was a proponent of development processes similar to those promoted by such organizations as the DSDM Consortium and the AgileAlliance before those organizations were established.  

He has developed an approach, and a supporting tool, that allow system analysts and users to define data model objects, and to immediately see the how those objects would be represented in a functional prototype.  As users record their sample business data and generate reports using the functional prototype, the experienced system analyst can help identify issues with the data model and related functions.  The analyst can then copy the application, modify the new version, and again review the functional prototype with the users.

In this presentation, Ken will describe his approach to identifying and documenting data and functional requirements.  He will also demonstrate how he uses the tool he has developed, Logical Designer, to assist him in this process.

 

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