Resource/Scheduling Analysis, Process/Data Modelling, etc discussion

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Anyone? eg ERDs, DFD, Gantt charts etc? Would be open to some discussion in this regard. Did a lot of this (primarily process modelling) back when...

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[a_unique_person]

For a more than reasonable fee, I can advice an expert consultation service. How does $2,000 a day sound? And I promise to wear a nice suit.

[a_unique_person]

I think the craze these days is UML and it's associated parephenalia. I found ERD and DFD to work just fine for me.

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If there were jobs around making $2K/day I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you about it :cool:

UML seems to me to be one of those things that isn't really much of anything, when you get down to it (a common statement about it is "well it's not a methodology".....well then wtf IS it? Find a straight answer, I dare you). It's kind of like one of those trick houses where you have to go thru hallway after hallway and room after room, then when you get to the end (the "goal") and open the final door, you fall out of a 2d story opening in the back of the house. ie you travel a lot and go nowhere. Likewise for "CMM" and similar dribblings. ie a bunch of corporate-speak crapola, for the most part.

I was thinking more of stuff like you mentioned, ie ERD, DFD, process modelling, etc, all which are quite different from each other and (thank God) different from UML-type stuff.

We used various CASE tools in jobs I've had previously that did each of these - one called System Architect, was nice because they used a "universal" database for it, eg could create process models which depicted data elements, which could then be used to make ERDs.

[T'ai Chi]

I like data modelling.. not sure bout the other stuff. :)