Streamlined Object Modeling: Patterns, Rules, and Implementation

A. Streamlined Object Modeling Principles

Object Modeling

Principle 1: The How of Why Is What

Conceptual planning for an endeavor goes through three stages: why build, what to build, and how to build. How needs what to define its scope, and what needs why to define its purpose.

Principle 2: The Object Modeling Viewpoint

Use object modeling to build group consensus by focusing on impersonal objects, not subjective users.

Principle 3: Object Modeling a New Business

Use object modeling with clients building a new business to flesh out details and issues, and document the proposed business in an impersonal and concrete manner.

Principle 4: Object Modeling for Process Re-engineering

Use object modeling with clients re-engineering a business ...