Hello,
On thing that has come up during the development of the Modeling Guidelines
is the question of how much effort and attention should be given to model
navigation: specifically making it easy to know what diagrams exist and
getting to them.
My thoughts are that:
a) The models can become quite large and some diagrams are buried deep
within the models -- it would require expanding several levels down and then
across packages in the browser to get to some diagrams and without knowing
what exists significant searching around just to see what exists.
b) Many stakeholders unfamiliar with the project (first time viewers or
those joining for the development of the next version) will need to view
and/or work with the models -- many unfamiliar with what diagrams do and/or
'can' exist, where to look for them and with varying proficiency with Rose.
c) Making model navigation (drill- up and down) easy and intuitive as well
as making all models visible can be done with minimal effort.
Yes Rose has 'find' and 'browse' but in both cases you have to know what
your looking for. I believe that this issue applies to all of the models
but especially to the use-case model.
Others argue that all this is simply unimportant. Maybe their right. I
wanted to get the thoughts of others who had been through the process of
managing complex models (and ours will be complex) through several life
cycles. Your thoughts?
Thanks,
Rusty
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Rusty Williamson
> Sr. Systems Architect
GERS Retail Systems
http://www.gers.com/
The Object Workshop
http://home.san.rr.com/williamson/
Home Page
http://www.znet.com/~rusty/
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