Analysis Methods and Tools

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the tools or core concepts that analysts use to create specifications or the logical equivalences of what the system needs to do to provide answers for users. The chapter defines each type of structured diagramming technique and what each diagramming method provides to completing the logical architecture of the system. Regardless of whether a package software system is required or the system is to be developed internally, the organization must create logical analysis before it can truly understand the needs of the business and its consumers. Analysts need to extend their tools to reach out to the consumer marketplace and learn to provide specifications that contain risks—risks of uncertainty created by a high velocity and competitive markets. Thus, specifications will need to contain more options to handle unexpected changes that evolve suddenly from new disruptive technologies.