Question for all:

The way I learned it and have experienced it, analysis is largely about properly partitioning a system.   Yet, I have reviewed the BABOk (v 1.6) and could not even find the word partitioning mentioned once.  Am I missing something or is this a fundamental error?

Tony

But K, partitioning is not a SADM (Structured Analysis and Design) thing.   Irregardless of what analysis tool is choosen, the system functionality still needs to be partitioned (i.e., broken up).  

Isn't it strange that analysis is largely about partitioning, and yet a handbook on how perform analysis does not even mention it? 

I have done a fair amount of technical writing, and often a big part of that work is evaluating existing documentation for usability.  I have read alot of documentation that goes on-and-on-and-on about all kinds of stuff, but that is  largely  unintelligable - by anybody - because the author skipped over key fundamentals necessary for a reader to comprehend all the other stuff.  And if the author did not  understand the fundamentals himself/herself - a very common occurance - the documentation is even more difficult to comprehend.

Tony