Question

General Hardware Products Your boss, the IT director, wants you to explain FDDs, BPM, DFDs, and UML to a group of company managers and users who will serve on a systems development team for the new marketing system
1. Explain how an FDD can be used in requirements modeling.
2. Describe BPM and how it can be used.
3. Explain how DFDs can be used in requirements modeling.
4. Describe the UML and how it can be used during systems development.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. FDD is a process and Analysts can use a FDD to create and use business functions and processes. It Requirements models are used when gathering requirements for a new system.

2. BPM is used on an ongoing basis for business process improvement. It is meant to improve order, insight and efficiency of the collective workflows that make up any given business process. BPM is meant to reduce any chaos within those collective workflows that make up a process and eliminate ad hoc workflow management. BPM means Business Process Management.

3. DFDs stands for Data Flow Diagram which will help software developers and designers to understand how they can take their next step to fit into the overall business process. DFDs paly key role for a successful requirements modeling.

4. UML can be used for modeling a system independent of a platform language. UML is a graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting information about software-intensive systems. UML gives a standard way to write a system model, covering conceptual ideas.

Explanation:

Functional decomposition diagram (FDD) is used to identify functions and define their structure. It is a technique to decompose the complex problem into manageable pieces or individual elements to develop the application or product.

DFDs: It contains a process (shape) that represents the system to model, in this case, the "Food Ordering System". It also shows the participants who will interact with the system, called the external entities. In this example, Supplier, Kitchen, Manager and Customer are the entities who will interact with the system.

Unified Modeling Language (UML): Edraw UML Diagram is the application of choice for many software engineers and designers. The software is fully compatible with 64 and 32-bit Windows platforms from Windows XP to Windows 10.