To build software that meets its business goals, IT and business professionals must work together closely to define specifications and build models that accurately describe them. In Business Models: A Guide for Business and IT, Haim Kilov gives you the shared language you need to accomplish this. He illuminates every key concept underlying today's most important approaches to specifications and modeling, giving business professionals practical insight for decision-making and giving IT experts practical tools for assessing your work in its business context.

Business Models: A Guide for Business and IT

Business & Money

Kilov, Haim

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Pearson Technology Group

<p>One step is crucial to the success of virtually every software development project: specifying the business problem with clarity and precision. Business Specifications brings together the latest real-world techniques for doing so. Independent of methodology, and refreshingly practical, this book contains extensive examples drawn from real consulting experience in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and other key industries. The book demonstrates proven techniques for discovering knowledge "buried" throughout the business. It shows why business domain experts must take the lead in defining business rules - and how analysts and technologists can support them. Above all, it demonstrates how to tame complexity while capturing the essence of a business in a rigorous specification that can not only be realized efficiently, but can evolve as the business changes. Whatever your role in business process transformation or software development, this book will dramatically increase your odds of success.</p>

Business Specifications: The Key to Successful Software Engineering

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

PRENTICE/HALL

Many of today's business information systems are notoriously ineffective — due in large part to too many unscientific, haphazard approaches to their development. This book introduces the scientific thought essential to understanding a business and to creating a successful business information system for a particular business. It shows how to make system analysis as disciplined an activity as programming, and how the formal specification of behavior at the right level of abstraction is the desired approach to system analysis. KEY TOPICS: Shows how the system analyst may use the same concepts of “good thinking” as the programmer — abstraction, precise understanding of behavior, and reuse — to end up with a specification that is understandable and formal.   For systems analysts, requirements engineers, data modellers, business planners, etc. responsible for understanding and developing requirements for information systems and applications; and for designers, programmers , testers, documentors involved in the information system development process.

Information Modeling: An Object-Oriented Approach

Pearson

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