Managing Difficult Conversations

#text-block-10 { margin-bottom:0px; text-align:left; }

1. Principles of Object Oriented Analysis

Benefit of Object Oriented Analysis
Determining how much modeling to do when the project is for a front-end to an existing legacy system
Objects, classes, inheritance, aggregation, polymorphism

2. Creating the essential business class model

Creating a common frame of reference of business concepts (classes) at the start of a project
Defining key entity (business) classes
Defining key associations during interviews with the client
Defining multiplicity during interviews with the client
Documenting entity classes with UML and Rational ROSE
Modeling roles in the class diagram: How to model people who interact in numerous ways with the business (e.g., a beneficiary who is also a policy owner)

3. Creating the detailed business structural model

Converting the essential business model into a detailed model by adding attributes and operations
Defining business data rules in the “Attributes” documentation of a class
Defining business procedural rules in the “Operations” documentation of a class
Distributing attributes and operations amongst classes when inheritance and aggregation are present in the model

4. Developing the structural model during use-case iterations

Identifying business classes referred to by a use-case
Verifying the use-case against the existing class model
Updating the class model based on the use-case
Linking the use-case to the structural model

#text-block-11 { margin-bottom:0px; text-align:left; }

5. Developing the data model

Reasons for converting the structural OO model (class diagrams) into a data model
Creating Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) from class diagrams
Drawing Entities, Entity Relationships, Cardinalities
Converting inheritance and aggregation relationships to data modeling elements
How inheritance is implemented in a Relational Data Base Management System (RDBMS) such as ORACLE or DB2

6. Introduction to Data Warehouses

Mapping the Object Model to the Data Warehouse

7. Advanced topics

How the developer uses the business structural model to design the software
Interfaces, Patterns
Introduction to IDEF1
Introduction to new technologies: DSLs (Domain Specific Languages), MDA (Model Driven Architecture), the metapattern