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UML for the IT Business Analyst: A Practical Guide to Object-Oriented Requirements Gathering | Howard Podeswa | Teaching the Business Analyst to Talk to the Programmer

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	UML for the IT Business Analyst: A Practical Guide to Object-Oriented Requirements Gathering Howard Podeswa Course Technology PTR, 2005 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

How to use UML as a BA

Many other good books are available for learning the UML. There are good books for learning to write Use Cases. This book's real strength is that it offers a practical method for Business Analysis that uses the UML and Use Cases. This is very important because books explaining UML typically offer lots of details and a focuss on how developers might use the UML in blueprinting a system; this book, instead, explains when, why, and how the BA can use the UML and Use Cases to model and analyze the business context and business requirements, as well as ensure that business value is delivered.

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Teaching the Business Analyst to Talk to the Programmer

I'm not so sure that I like the title to this book. What it's really about is teaching the IT requirements writer to communicate with the programmer folk about what he wants a business software system to do. Perhaps a title like Teaching the Business Folk How to Talk with the New Object Oriented Programmers. True, he does use UML to define the business model. But if you understood the problem you'd still not necessarily understand that UML is what you need.

Object Oriented programmers talk funny, at least as far as we old fashioned procedural programmers are concerned. Mr. Podeswa uses a 'What They Say -- What They Mean' approach to help us understand the jargon of the object oriented world. Then he combines thing we can feel and touch to describe these words. For instance a specialized class like 'Samsung Camera Phone' belongs to the generalized class of 'Mobile Phone.'

This is an example of the writing style where the author is leading us by the hand (with things like sample work sheets) to producing a model that the object programmers can understand. Lo and behold, it's using the UML.

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Excellent basis for a training course

Howard actually personally delivered training at my company based on this book. We had originally planned a different training cirriculum based on a collection of material across several of the courses offered by a university, for which Howard had previously provided training. We agreed that due to our company's recent changes and migration to a more agile development process, that the book content was more appropriate for our situation, even though his book is not specific to agile development. Rather it is relevant to any development process utilized. The book provides excellent integration with Rational Rose, which is the de facto modeling tool in the industry. The examples in the book are very relevant to those developing enterprise applications, which Howard has a great deal of experience developing. I highly recommend this book and any opportunity you may have to take a training class lead by Howard.

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Excellent start book for UML

Excellent coverage of Rational tools, modeling and process. The book gives a great example of the software development process and great tips on how to get the specific areas covered in your project.

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