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Rating  - Between the Manager and the Tekkie
This is an interesting book in that it looks at modelling from a fairly high level. It is intended for business people who are responsible for improving their business's market position and are using software development as a key component in addressing the business goals, analysts who are responsible for creating system requirements to address the needs of the business, managers who need an understanding of what modelling can do for their projects, primarily software, but also in other areas such as database utilization, programmers who don't know UML but who must implrement the systems that are specified in UML. It is specifically not for the UML programmer who will need a more complete text to do the actual UML work.
I would add that this is also a suitable book for the beginning UML programmer who can use this book as a good introduction to what UML can do. This kind of thing is often left out of the beginning of the more serious texts.
This is part of the For Mere Mortals series. The intent of this series is to present information on important technology topics in an easily accessible, common-sense manner. This book meets this intent in every way. The writing style, the content, the tone is ideal. The positioning of the book in the middle of the manager and the tekkie is what is truly outstanding.
Rating - Learn to appreciate UML and visual modeling
Even though software engineering has been around for about half a century, not many people still appreciate the value of 'visual modeling' in software systems development. Something even more surprising is the lack or awareness about UML, the industry-standard notation for modeling since 1997.
The authors have done a marvelous job in attacking these two issues directly. UML for MM covers the essentials of UML in a simple style while enlightening the reader about the importance of visual modeling.
Starting with business modeling they take you right across the software life cycle covering requirements modeling, architecture modeling, application modeling and database modeling. Chapter on testing explains how UML models can be used for effective testing. Moreover, the book gives a very broad view of the state of the art covering UML 2.0 and MDA. The many sidebars present the authors' vast experiences nicely.
I would give 5 starts for this book because the authors have successfully achieved their purpose of introducing UML to stakeholders who are NOT hard-core modelers. Readers will also get an appreciation of how valuable 'modeling' is for complex systems.
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