SSADM & GRAPES: Two Complementary Major European Methodologies for Information Systems Engineering - Softcover

Aue, A.; Haggenmüller, R.; Knuth, B.; Pfeiffer, M.; Robinson, K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540553800 ISBN 13: 9783540553809

Publisher: Springer, 1992

Synopsis

documentation is constantly refined as detailed under­ 1.1 Purpose standing of the requirement increase. The CCT A of the UK government and Siemens For project management purposes the SSADM life Nixdorf (SNI) have undertaken a joint project to com­ cycle is defined in terms of work packages, modules, pare the CCTA's methodology SSADM and Siemens stages and steps. Each work package is completed when Nixdorf's product GRAPES]). SSADM is an analysis a specified set of documentation is produced and satis­ and design methodology for computer systems. fies specified quality criteria. All activities undertaken at GRAPES is a graphical language used within the each point are those necessary to produce the required framework provided by the DOMINO@: process tech­ documentation. nology of Siemens Nixdorf for analysis and design of information systems. (In the 1991 Statement of Direc­ The analysis is undertaken concentrating on three key tion it was declared the Siemens Nixdorf main line for perspectives: modelling technology.) The study was undertaken in February and March 1991. • functions (users' views of system processing to react to events) The goal of the study was to compare SSADM and • events (real-world business events, e.g. "receipt of DOMINO/GRAPES to discover whether both application"; or system-generated, e.g. end-of-month approaches elicit the same knowledge about a system.

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Product Description

The 1980s have seen the growth of a large number of different methodologies for developing information processing systems. A manager or analyst trying to decide which methodology, if any, to use has great difficulty in trying to assess the competing claims of the many different approaches. Such comparisons as have been published tend to be based on academic criteria rather than on practical experience. They tend to focus on syntax and relatively crude analyses of the semantics of the constructs used on the methods rather than on the philosophy behind the methods and the principles they embody. This book, which is based on a joint project of CCTA of the UK government and Siemens-Nixdorf Information Systems, compares two of the major European methodologies, SSADM of CCTA and GRAPES of SNI, with the aim of assessing the feasibility of pooling the efforts of both organizations in the attempt to devise a standard European methodology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540553800
• ISBN 13: 9783540553809
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 323
• Editor: Duschl Rudolf, Hopkins Nicholas C.