Chapter Sixteen. Modeling Management

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstract away its essence.

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.1

1. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (Addison-Wesley, 1995), p. 183.

One of the critical needs within all large corporations is to achieve efficient information exchange in a heterogeneous environment. The typical enterprise has hundreds of applications that serve as systems of record for information that, although developed independently and based on incompatible data models, must be shared efficiently and accurately in order to effectively ...

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