Re: [Takeaction-devel] Analysis document final final

[Peter B. <pe...@bo...>]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 21:55, Justin Beattie wrote:
> Mike, Peter:
> 
> As Mike Smith testified, I was away last weekend (canoe camping in the 
> Georgian Bay). Good for me! The trip was excellent; the weather was 
> beautiful and the park is outstanding. But now i`m back and ready to roll.

I'm glad you had a great trip!

> Our (the project group`s) first objective this term is to get the Analysis 
> document out of the way, and try not to touch it again. I can safely say 
> we`re all sick of it. I won`t presume on your part, but I can understand if 
> you don`t want to wade through all 200 pages!

Understandable. In contrast to waterfall, the Rational Unified Process
(and other agile programming models) actually evolve and revisit the
analysis iteratively and incrementally. With RUP, you do _most_ of your
requirements and analysis at the front of the cycle but, rather than
leaving these artifacts behind us, we continually address them as the
requirements change (yes, requirements always change mid-stream... fact
of life) and our understanding of the system progresses.

(I hope not to be perceived as beating a dead horse on this waterfall
alternative thing... I merely intend to share my knowledge of a
methodology that works far more effectively than waterfall).

> Our latest and what we will deem final version is up for download. Our 
> regular file server is undergoing construction, so you can get it off my 
> personal server at http://supaju.fdns.net/Analysis_document_v2.sxw and 
> http://supaju.fdns.net/Analysis_document_v2.doc (I provided that just in 
> case the OpenOffice one doesn`t work - is that ironic?). :P
> 
> It isn`t very different from the last version you received, but a lot of the 
> errors that cost us marks last term are now fixed. We decided not to 
> incorporate any modifications to the system formally, as this will cause us 
> to waste time on documentation and impede our progress. By now, I`m aiming 
> only to give the school what it wants, and spend the rest of the time coding 
> what the collective WE want (meaning making TakeAction marketable).

Excellent.

Cheers,
Peter

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