Today's Agenda

• Take Home Final Exam

• Final Project Presentations

• 10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering

Presentation Order

• Yardi

• Kawamoto

• Cobb / Kartavenko / Meyer / Reinhart

• Hankin / O'Brien

• Collett / Ferrario / Tabas

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#1)

• Document Engineering isn't about XML; it's about D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T

A Checklist for Describing Case Studies

• D -- data types and document types

• O -- organizational processes

• C -- context (types of products or services, industry, geography, regulatory considerations)

• U -- user types and special user requirements

• M -- models, patterns, or standards that apply

• E -- enterprises and eco systems (e.g., trading communities, standards bodies)

• N -- the needs (business case) driving the enterprise(s)

• T -- technology constraints and opportunities

D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T in the Document Engineering Approach

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#2)

• Narrative and Transactional Documents are on a Continuum

The Document Type Spectrum

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#3)

• Documents and Processes are Yin and Yang

A Process-Centric Depiction

A Document-Centric Depiction

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#4)

• Overlapping Information Is the Glue of Processes

Overlapping Information Components as "Process Glue"

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#5)

• Friends don't let Friends Model Alone

What's in a Name?

• "The expense of resolving ambiguous business terms over and over on a daily basis pales in comparison with the expense of NOT realizing that there is an ambiguity in the term"

The Equivalence Problem

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#6)

• Patterns Rule! Reuse when you can, and Follow the Golden Rule when you can't

The Model Matrix

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#7)

• Balance Archeology and Anthropology

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#8)

• Inventory / sample / harvest / consolidate / refine / assemble / encode

The Modeling Artifacts of Document Engineering

• Analyzing the Context -- UML use case diagrams

• Analyzing/Designing Business Processes -- Worksheets, UML Activity and Sequence Diagrams

• Applying Patterns to Business Processes -- Document Checklist

• Analyzing Documents -- Document Inventory

• Analyzing Document Components -- Consolidated Table of Content Components

• Assembling Document Components -- UML Class Diagram

• Assembling Document Models -- UML Class Diagram or Spreadsheet

• Implementing Models -- XML Schemas

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#9)

• Preserve your Modeling Investments in your Implementations

The Big Red Button

A Disclaimer about MBUI

10 Things to Remember About Document Engineering (#10)

• This is not the end of Document Engineering