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Title: Business Modeling With UML: Business Patterns at Work by Magnus Penker, Magnus Penker, Hans-Erik Eriksson ISBN: 0-471-29551-5 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Room for improvement, but not all bad
Comment: Considering that that the "UML Toolkit", although now dated, is a useful book, I was expecting quite a lot from "Business Modeling with UML". However, it seems like the authors couldn't make up their mind about what to focus on. The core of the book, the Eriksson-Penker business extensions, make up for a mere twenty pages of the book, and the rest of the book is spent discussing various patterns, business rules and the UML in general. Many of the subjects discussed are based upon earlier works, and treated a bit too lightly, imho. Similar to just watching the highlights on sportscenter, it just doesn't tell the whole story. There are also a number of (minor) syntactical errors in the chapter dealing with OCL, which somewhat confuses things for the reader. Despite this, not all is bad with the book. The E-P Business Extensions are useful, and their creation of four business views (similar to the 4+1 view of software architecture) is indeed a good one. The book also fills a void in the UML and RUP, which is well needed, so by all means, take a look at it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting concept, great work on business modeling
Comment: Sometime ago I have been wondering if somebody will try to bridge the gap between business modeling (the one used by consultants) and software engineering. It would certainly make it easier for people to understand and explain business operations.
This book is an application of the UML into the realm of business modeling. It is very good in the sense that it explains and goes through the patterns that form business models. The introduction on UML is pretty short and concise, so if you are new to it try using "Applying UML..." book to get an introduction. Be prepared to sit down and spend some time reading, since the material can be a little bit daunting to try to understand and remember all the patterns available. Overall, I wish I had this book for Systems Analysis instead of the outdated software engineering books that we used.
Rating: 3
Summary: A very good guide to business-level modelling with UML
Comment: One of the weaknesses of the Unified Modelling Language is its relatively limited support for modelling at the Enterprise level, especially to accurately model business processes. The UML purists believe that everything should be reduced to Use Cases, while these authors recognise that much more is necessary.
The book covers five quite distinct topics:
1. An introduction to business modelling and UML, explaining the problems the authors want to help solve, and describing each of the relevant techniques of UML,
2. A proposal for a group of extensions to UML (using that language's own established extensibility mechanisms) so that that it can better model business processes,
3. A description of the variety of views and models which will be required to establish a comprehensive understanding of the business, or at least part of it,
4. A repository of "business patterns", which you can use to model the business,
5. A comprehensive worked example.
Each of these is quite detailed. In particular, the book contains probably the best introduction to the Object Constraint Language (OCL), and its use to model business rules, that I have read anywhere. The sections on how to do business modelling are also very good, as are the introductions to the relevant UML techniques.
The "Eriksson-Penker extensions for business modelling" are important because several UML-based case tools have now implemented them as an emerging standard for business process modelling with UML. If you want to fully understand how these work, this is the book to read.
The business patterns are more of a "curates egg". Some are extremely useful, and others innovative which could easily solve your problems where there is an accurate match. That said, some are less good and seem to state the obvious, although with patterns it is always difficult to know if you are judging some harshly simply because you are so familiar with them and other readers will get more value. Some of the pattern explanations are a bit repetitive, and the "examples" often sound very artificial, but overall they are useful, and a single one which solves a real business modelling problem for you will justify the rest.
At over 400 pages, some of which is occasionally slightly slow and ponderous this is not an ideal book to read from cover to cover. But it is definitely one to study, focusing on whichever topic is most relevant to you at any time, and I can happily recommend it.
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Title: Enterprise Modeling with UML: Designing Successful Software through Business Analysis (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) by Chris Marshall ISBN: 0201433133 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 03 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn ISBN: 0201702258 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: UML 2 Toolkit by Hans-Erik Eriksson, Magnus Penker, Brian Lyons, David Fado ISBN: 0471463612 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Elements of UML(TM) Style by Scott W. Ambler ISBN: 0521525470 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Enterprise Integration Patterns : Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf ISBN: 0321200683 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 10 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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