With our background in information systems development, we have a keen interest in systems analysis, in particular, using UML to describe business and other systems including The French Social Security system, some training material on a computer manufacturer and various other smaller use cases.
The water distribution system is an example of a system described in UML and that a system can be described by its observed properties. The diagram below is a UML use case model of a modern urban distribution system and depicts...
Document both structured backbone systems and informal information systems to guarantee operations against the turnover of information holders. Information systems in the broader sense include the informal verbal systems, the coffee machine and water-cooler discussions. People normally think of the internal...
Changes to systems are driven by changing conditions. Such change requires system documentation to keep the business evolving in lines with strategy. The aim here is to summarise some of the issues and challenges in software systems development. The specification process,...