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Alan Cooper, the author of The Inmates are Running the Asylum, has an interesting set of newsletters at www.cooper.com/content/insights/newsletters.asp Chendom: The home of Dr. Peter Chen, inventor of the E-R Diagram. Cooperative Systems Engineering Group David Hay's Essential Strategies, Inc., Houston, TX. Web: www.essentialstrategies.com Formal Methods in Information Systems Software Engineering Dorothy Graham is the moving force behind Grove Consultants. Grove is a UK company that provides consultancy, training and inspiration in software testing, test automation and Inspection. Alistair Cockburn's Humans and Technology, Salt Lake City, UT. Web site: http://members.aol.com/acockburn/ . Especially his "Goals and Use Cases." Originally published in Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, November/December 1997 Patterns: a webiste that gives you directions of papers, conferenecs and articles about design, requirements and other types of patterns. http://hillside.net/patterns/patterns.html Ian Alexander has posted his Use Case toolkit on the Scenarioplus website for free download. This toolkit can be used with DOORS. It allows you to construct complete use case definitions with metrics and automatic linking of included and exception use cases. The summary diagrams are drawn automatically from the defined use cases, actors, and their relationships. There is a short illustrated description on the website. SoftwareDioxide is an Indian software engineering portal that includes links to many SE sites, articles, channels, jobs, buy and sell, etc. Very comprehensive. Software Engineering web site at http://www.software-engineer.org has some good resources. It is aimed at a more general audience than just requirements. The content of the site is submitted by contributors from the worldwide software engineering community, and thus has an interesting diversity. USC's Computer Science Department In his keynote before the 18th International Conference on Software Engineering (Berlin, 1996), Tom DeMarco suggested that Barry Boehm's Win-Win Spiral Model was "the most exciting new direction in software requirements analysis of this decade." Look into these web pages for papers pertaining to the Risk Spiral Model, Win-Win, CoCoMo II and other ongoing work. There is also a nice bio page about each of the principals. Ed Yourdon's Web Site This is one of the most elaborate and useful web locations for anyone in our profession. It contains good reviews, as well as sample articles and other opinions and pieces from Ed. This is also the home of TYR - The Yourdon Report - Ed's monthyl newsletter. There is something here for almost anyone.
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