Question

Suppose you were assigned to develop a logical model of the registration system at a school or college. would you be better off using a top-down approach, or would a bottom-up strategy be better? what would influence your decision?

Answer 1

Top-down approaches are most often useful when solving problems such as these. Since all the data is already available, taking the overall problem and breaking it down into smaller parts (with more detail as each level is attained) helps to make the overall task easier.