For those of you which use elements of structured systems analysis (data flow diagrams, data dictionary, etc.) you may be interested in Ed Yourdon's FREE e-book:
In this book, Ed covers a number of topics relevant to business systems analysts including:
That is one serious (and fat) free download. I encourage all analysts, especially new ones to take a read.
Maybe give up a few comments or a review here...
Just enough analysis - 645 pages?
Tony
Just a note of caution. Yourdon's techniques have been around since at least the 70's. They are tried and proven. I used them for 15 years. They are just another way of looking at and presenting requirements, functions, etc.
Unfortunately for Yourdon, the industry has moved away from his data driven approach to the behavioural approach espoused in the UML. Yourdon is to Analysis as Cobol is to programming.
Kimbo
Data flow diagrams are radically different from UML functional modeling techniques (use cases and activity diagrams). Data flow diagrams were primarily developed to help an analyst avoid forced, artificial partitioning. The UML techniques pretend that such a problem does not exist.
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