Writing Effective Use Cases
Author: Alistair Cockburn Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2001 ISBN: 0201702258 There is much more to the world of use cases than shiny…
Measuring the Quality of Models
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 INTRODUCTION Many professions have plenty of yardsticks for measuring their version of ‘quality’. Sadly, data…
E-Biz Metrics
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 Introduction From our searches for excellence, through quality improvement, and business process re-engineering there emerges…
A Repository Model – The Relational Design Model
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 “There was a young fellow named Corey Whose career was not showered in glory, He…
Denormalization and the Rules of Reconstruction
Published in TDAN.com October 2000 Introduction Software and Database engineering are complex activities that require planning and control to be…
Demystifying Document Strategy Design
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Most organizations do not consider themselves to be in the document business. Nevertheless, documents are…
Secrets of Software Maintenance
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 Secret #1 – There are no secrets. If you can accept this reality, you are…
A New Paradigm for Successful Acquisition of Information Systems
Abstract: Most information systems projects are over budget, under specified, delivered late, and fail to meet organizational expectations. A key…
A Repository Model – The Analysis Model
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 For several years now, your author has been searching for a catalogue to use for…
Satisfying the User
Published in TDAN.com July 2000 This article is excerpted from a book titled, Data Warehouse Project Management scheduled to be…