[Sigia-l] Meaning of "unified development methodologies"

[ruth at ruthkaufman.com]

You can also use UML to create a model of a system from the user's perspective
-- i.e., a conceptual model. So, for example, a "user object" such as a
shopping cart, a confirmation, or a web seminar may ultimately translate into
some kind of function, application, content type or specific content object,
interaction pattern, policy, or some combination of these. The modeling, which
includes many types of diagrams, is done by user engineers (that's what 
we call
them here); the interaction design is done by IA's; and the implementation
design is done by IT architects.

(I'm oversimplifying in this description. The modeling work, alone, can take a
small army several years, depending on the scale of the
site/application/system, of course.)

Regards,
Ruth

Quoting Lisa Fitzgerald <lfitzgerald at theniceagency.com>:

>
> I work with TAs who do the use case diagrams and context diagrams that
> capture *system* requirements.  An IA would only be doing that if, in
> reality, they were doing the job of both IA and TA.
>
> Re front-end I do activity diagrams and sequence diagrams and then attach
> those to wireframes/storyboards of the user interface. In my experience, TAs
> and IAs work _together_ in the process -- it makes for interesting solutions
> that neither would have conceived of in isolation.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnson, Bryce [mailto:BryceJ at navantis.com]
> Sent: May 12, 2005 10:01 AM
> To: SIGIA-L
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Meaning of "unified development methodologies"
>
> Apart from when somebody is a developer disguised as an IA, does anyone
> actually use UML in their IA work?
>
> I'm not asking a rhetorical question here - just curious.
>
> Jonathan
> ====================================================
>
> I'd like to more then I do right now but I work in an software development
> environment so lots of people use it here.
> I think it is very important for an IA to understand how to read UML to
> interact with software architects. I also think there is a real benefit to
> having a diagram notation with a strict syntax to ensure that the
> information is clear.
>
> This guy uses UML in his IA
> http://www.techquila.com/tmsinia_4.html
>
> Bryce
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