July Chapter Meeting: Unified Modeling Language Artifacts
Jun 30th, 2007 | By Tom Johnson | Category: MeetingsI’m pleased to announce our July chapter meeting on Unified Modeling Language Artifacts, to be presented by Mark Hanigan and Cindy Skawinksi. They originally gave this presentation at the national STC Summit in Minneapolis last month.
Note: Please note that the meeting will take place Thursday, July 12 rather than July 5. We decided that July 5 was too close to the Fourth of July holiday and many people would be gone.
Cindy and Mark will explain how technical communicators can draw upon visual process flows, called UML artifacts (UML stands for unified modeling language) to create their documentation. These process flows, one of which is an activity diagram, visually represent the use cases for software. A use case model depicts all of the use cases for a project in terms of their relationships to each other. An activity diagram is a component of a use case. Based on unified modeling language, these artifacts/diagrams can also be deliverables that technical communicators create to expand their role beyond mere writers.
Note: We moved the date to July 12 (the second Thursday of the month) because the first Thursday coincided with the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Date: Thursday, July 12
Time: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Holiday Inn Express, Tampa
Cost: $10
Mark,
Toward the end of your presentation last night, you mentioned PCI-DSS - can you say more about that?
Also, I mentioned James Martin as the original guru for any kind of centralized data processing and methodology and fourth generation computing language. I read some books of his back in the mid 1970’s.
For an introduction, I’d recommend:
“Strategic Data-Planning Methodologies”
From Wikipedia:
Dr. James Martin is a consultant and author, has been called the “guru of the information age,” and was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for his book, The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow. A former Student of Keble College, Oxford, he has written over a hundred books many of which were best sellers in the information technology industry.
He has written extensively on his computer systems design methodology information engineering and also on computer-aided software engineering, of which some say he is the father. He was an early promoter of fourth-generation programming languages. He was also the primary author of the Rapid Application Development methodology.
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