Tag Archives: Systems Analysis
Drug Pushers Do Less Harm Than Programmers!
IT systems development is an ever increasing financial burden for most business with a failure rate that is horrific, producing systems that bring stress (and often misery) to those condemned to use them. It is appalling that after all these … Continue reading
What is a Business Systems Analyst?
I wrote this response to as a result of being asked the question “what is a Systems Analyst?” The term ‘Systems Analyst‘ is now outmoded. It used be applied to those analysts who did ‘requirements analysis’ prior to computerizing a part of the business. … Continue reading
VPN versus LAN
A network colleague is going to putting together a paper on the benefits that can accrue from having an integrated information system provided by a Virtual Private Network (VPN) as opposed to an unintegrated Local Area Network (LAN). Some of … Continue reading
Prince 2 or PMP?
A question I was recently asked was which of these two is the most effective Project Management Methodology. Prince2 is very formulaic – some might say bureaucratic – and most be followed strictly if it is the defined methodology for … Continue reading
IMM – Born in New Zealand
The integrated modelling method was born in Queenstown, New Zealand in 2003. My career was a Consultant Business Analyst working in enterprises of all sizes from family businesses to international corporations in Ireland, Europe and the UK. In December 2000 … Continue reading
Must a Business Function Always Transform Data?
“Must a Business Function always create or transform data or information?” was question I was asked by a computing student last week. The simple answer is very definite “YES”. So, if you have a “Business Function” in your enterprise that does not create or transform information, then, whatever else it might be, it is definitely NOT a genuine Business Function.
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Posted in Function Modeling, Information Flow Modeling
Tagged Function Modelling, GEN03, IMM, Information Flow, Systems Analysis
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One "L" or Two??
One of the first questions that many of you will be asking is “does this guy not know how to spell ‘modeling’?”, others will be asking “does this guy not know how to spell ‘modelling’?”. Does it have one “L” … Continue reading
What is Data State Modeling?
Data in a business can often exist in many states. For example, a theatre booking could possibly exist in the states of “provisional”, “cancelled”, “confirmed”, “transferred”, “picked up”. If such were the case it might be essential to know what … Continue reading
What is Data Structure Modeling?
Before computerising any Business Functions it is essential to identify and model the data used or created by these Functions and its relationship to other data items (or data entities) within the business. This is where the Data Structure … Continue reading
