The Object Advantage: Business Process Reengineering With Object Technology

By I. Jacobson, Agneta Jacobson, Maria Ericsson

From the author of the bestselling Object-Oriented Software Engineering, this is the first book to combine object-oriented technology and business p rocess engineering. Jacobson demonstrates how... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201422891
• ISBN13: 9780201422894
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

From the Source

Only two reviews here?? This book precedes Ivar Jacobson's role in UML, so it may be slightly redundant today, but it is an excellent use cases book, and it still comes down from the shelf now and then.

Solid OO Business Re-engineering Guide

With Booch's OOA/D and Rumbaugh et al's OMT of the same mid-90's era, Jacobsen's Use Cases complete a set of the most powerful contemporary approaches to software development prior to UML (no coincidence that they joined forces at Rational!). The well-integrated contents include: business engineering (definitions, the "new company", BPR, risk management), what is business modelling (definitions, traditional ways of modelling- SA/SD, IDEF, SADT, working with business models), object orientation (definitions & modelling), OO business modelling (re-engineering, business context), architecture, reversing the existing business, forward business engineering, an example, building the supporting information system, managing OO business engineering, and scaling up to a large business. Strengths include the attractive appropriate use of figures, sidebars, references and supporting material; and the depth of proven use cases and applications supporting the credibility of approach. A book you can read cover to cover, or dip into a section for reference. Much of the approach is now included in Rational's UML - so the book still has value for business and software development.Criticisms include the lack of more fully worked examples, and the lack of checklists (although chapter summaries are good). Overall a great intermediate-level text (not introductory nor complete enough to be expert) for software developers, engineers, and business information systems consultants.