MIS 2101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Unified Modeling Language, High-Level Design, Decision Points

• School: Temple University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 2101
• Professor: Adam Alalouf

Document Summary

Systems architecture: conceptual model that defines the structure, behavior, and views of a system, can compromise system components that work together to implement overall system, adls architecture description languages. Includes business services, app names/details, other relevant info for development purposes: physical design all major components and entities identified within specific physical servers and locations or specific software services. Includes all known details such as operating systems, version #s, patches: uml (unified modeling language) 9/5/2017: process flowchart sets sequence of activities and decision points; captures initial detail of process, deployment flowchart shows who does what along with interactions between people, delays = d; movement = arrow; storage/filling = triangle. Initial/final state should say what is being performed: name of action should describe purpose (rectangles should use verbs, tools microsoft visio, gliffy, excel. Start with a study to map out the system. Requirements gathering via interviews/brainstorming where engineers find exact needs to support systems being built: 3. )