Simple Introduction to Data and Activity Analysis (eBook)

Rosemary Rock-Evans (Autor)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4831-8405-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A Simple Introduction to Data and Activity Analysis provides an introduction to the main concepts embodied in the analysis techniques. This book provides a more balanced picture of the methods of the analysis by showing what deliverables are collected as well as how to obtain them. Organized into eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of some of the activities that need to be done to analyze the business and some of the end and intermediate deliverables produced by these activities. This text then explains how to get the activity analysis deliverables. Other chapters consider the causes and effects of problems in business. This book discusses as well how activities can be decomposed or broken down into more and more detailed activities, using the techniques of activity decomposition and data flow diagramming. The final chapter deals with the methods of analysis that show how different types of input could be converted into the data and activity models. This book is a valuable resource for computer programmers.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
A Simple Introduction to Data and Activity Analysis 2
Copyright Page 3
Table of Contents 4
Preface 8
Acknowledgements 10
Chapter 1. Introduction to Analysis 12
1.1 WHAT DOES "ANALYSIS" MEAN? 12
1.2 WHY IS DATA AND ACTIVITY ANALYSIS DIFFERENT FROM TRADITIONAL "SYSTEMS" ANALYSIS? 12
1.3 WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE? 13
1.4 WHERE CAN IT BE USED IN A TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT CYCLE? 15
1.5 HOW ARE THE RESULTS OF ANALYSIS USED? 19
1.6 WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER "METHODS" I'VE HEARD ABOUT? 20
1.7 SUMMARY 21
Chapter 2. Data Analysis 22
2.1 INTRODUCTION 22
2.2 MAIN CONCEPTS 22
2.3 DIAGRAMMATIC TECHNIQUES 26
2.4 OTHER DELIVERABLES OF DATA ANALYSIS 37
2.5 AN EXAMPLE MODEL 41
2.6 FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF DATA ANALYSIS 43
2.7 SUMMARY 44
Chapter 3. How to do Data Analysis 46
3.1 INTRODUCTION 46
3.2 ANALYSIS 48
3.3 MERGING THE MODELS 83
3.4 REFINING THE DATA MODEL 87
3.5 SUMMARY 112
Chapter 4. Activity or Function Analysis 116
4.1 INTRODUCTION 116
4.2 MAIN CONCEPTS OF ACTIVITY ANALYSIS 116
4.3 DIAGRAMMATIC REPRESENTATION 120
4.4 OTHER DELIVERABLES OF ACTIVITY ANALYSIS 135
4.5 SUMMARY 136
Chapter 5. How to do Activity Analysis 142
5.1 INTRODUCTION 142
5.2 ANALYSIS 144
5.3 REFINING THE RESULTS 181
5.4 VERIFICATION METHODS 184
5.5 SUMMARY 190
Chapter 6. Improving a System Using Analysis Deliverables 192
6.1 INTRODUCTION 192
6.2. PROBLEMS, CAUSES AND EFFECTS 192
6.3. EVENTS, OBLIGATIONS AND OBJECTIVES 197
6.4 SUMMARY 200
Chapter 7. Elementary Activities 202
7.1 INTRODUCTION 202
7.2 DEFINITION AND PURPOSE 202
7.3. STRUCTURED TEXT AND ACCESS PATHS 204
7.4. COMMON PROCEDURES, MESSAGES AND EMBEDDED ELEMENTARY ACTIVITIES 216
7.5. EXAMPLES OF ELEMENTARY ACTIVITIES 218
7.6. UPDATING THE DATA MODEL FROM THE ACCESS PATHS AND STRUCTURED ENGLISH (CONSISTENCY CHECKING) 219
7.7 OTHER USEFUL DETAILED DELIVERABLES OF AN ELEMENTARY ACTIVITY 236
7.8 SUMMARY 253
Chapter 8. Summary 254
8.1 INTRODUCTION 254
8.2 PACKAGING THE RESULTS 254
8.3 THE NEXT STEP - DESIGN 256
8.4 SUMMARY OF RESULTS 259
Index 262
Notes 266
Computer Weekly Publications 270

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• ISBN-10: 1-4831-8405-6 / 1483184056
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4831-8405-0 / 9781483184050