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Re: Getting up to speed on UML (Was: Re: Documentation Correctness...)
Subject:Re: Getting up to speed on UML (Was: Re: Documentation Correctness...) From:"Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Richard Lewis" <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:26:21 -0400
Maybe I need more coffee, but how does this answer the question "can
you recommend any other good resources to bring me up to date on UML?"
On 10/23/07, Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Am important part of learning the about the the task-analysis-related parts of the UML is to understand what those diagrams are not. They are not of real use for functional\task analysis. (Which, I would assume, as a TW, is of especial importance to you.) Below is a copy of a response that I got from James Robertson (a well know rqmnts engineering author, who he eats lunch with Tom DeMarco) on a requirements engineering listserv.
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> Bottom Line: Data Flow Diagrams = Task Analysis. Use Cases and Activity Diagrams (the UML task/function analysis techniques) = Predesign techniques.
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> Generic Richard
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