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Business managing directors often find it totally unlikely to commune business goals intended to be attained and specify their software requirements to technical members of staff. This beginner’s guide to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) – the usual for documenting software designs – teaches readers to commune with software developers in a more focused, effective way. It describes the basic diagrams of the UML modeling notation and shows how they are employed to specify requisites in an unambiguous way. When used on a project, the danger of failure through unclear requisites is removed. If you are a non-technical person with a stake in the success of a software project, this book is for you. Milan Kratochvil has worked as an IT-consultant, instructor and writer in methodology for closely twenty-five years, focusing on areas where IT and business intersect. Barry McGibbon is a necessary consultant for Princeton Softech.

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Essential UML info for managers
By Charles Ashbacher
Effective communication among humans is a very hard task, independent of the subject. When the selective information is imprecise and the languages are different, there is a lot of literal and figurative hand-waving and assumptions based on context. Many studies have shown that one of the major difficultnesses in software development is the difficultness that managing directors and developers have in communication business needs and goals. The managers think in and speak manager-speak and the developers in general commune in geek-speak. Since it is the obligation of the managers to give the direction, it is reasonable to suppose them to learn sufficient of the language of the developers to commune the goals. The essential language of software development is now the Unified Modeling Language or UML.
UML is a big and complex language, but the basi principles may be learned in a short time. The aim of this book is to explain the fundamentals of UML in a form that managers may understand. Presented in the style of a study of businesses, the words employed are those of managing directors rather than developers. After reading the book, any manager will be much more effective in their capacity to describe the aim of the software that is to be built. However, developers with an interest in learning UML will have to look elsewhere.
Unclear and equivocal software requirements cost the software industry billions of dollars each year. The one hundred pages of this book may support you substantially reduce your costs, provided you take the time and crusade to grasp the contents. In the new atmosphere of cost reductions, no manager of a software project may afford to ignore such a high level and rapid Return On Investment (ROI).

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