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Enterprise Modeling with UML: Designing Successful Software through Business Analysis (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)

Format: Paperback
Author: Chris Marshall
ReleaseDate: 03 November, 1999
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Rating:

Good start
This is a very hard exercice indeed as everybody seems to speak his own language. As a Management Consultant with an IT company, I have always been compelled by ideas to improve communications between the "top" consultants and the actual analysts and programmers.

UML can certainly improve on this and more, but beware, it is not a panacea as it is only a way to express situations. There are still a bunch of loopholes like uniform B-IT patterns that have to be developed (in-house).

So, yes indeed, this book gives you more than a few kicks in the butt, but we still have to walk a long walk.

A fair Overview, but lacking substance
However, it fails to be useful for specifying a buildable or testable system and does not address enterprise issues. This book provides a fair description about modeling for basic business components. The models in chapters 4 and 5 are useful only for coffee discussions - they are far from practical for business analysts, requirements engineers, testers, and OO designers.

Furthermore, it misses the mark by representing OO design as ontology under the disguise of UML diagrams. I was disappointed and expected more from a book that is published in the Object Technology Series.

Could not see the value of the book
But, when I finished reading it, I did not learn anything new. I bought this book by seeing its title. The book is written as a novel instead of a technical book. Bottom line, I did not get the worth of my money back after reading this.