[CLUE-Tech] Data models, diagrams, process models documentation

[Kevin Cullis]

Sean,

Anything and everything about it.

>From a perspective of documentation, most organizations do it lousy,
others haven't keep it up as tightly as it should (a friend recently
started a project where the docs of the company in bankruptcy is two
years old).  I'm also eager to find out what best practices, if any,
people follow.  Do they follow certain principles when doing this? Are
they organized to make it easier to follow or update?  Those type of
questions.

Kevin

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 09:48, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> On 08-15 21:10, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Does anyone know of good documentation template sources of data models,
> > diagrams, and process models?  I'm curious to see what others are doing
> > to see if there are any improvements to be had from what I've seen or
> > been working on.
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> I'm not sure what you are asking for. Are you asking for what others' data
> models/class diagrams/etc look like?
> 
> Besides way expensive tools like Rational or PowerDesigner (I think
> PowerDesigner runs to 10K if you get the full suite, 3K for just the
> "DataArchitect" part), I have found ArgoUML (open source) which can do UML.
> There is also a plugin for Eclipse called Omondo which can do UML, too.
> There is also a more slicked-up commercial product that is based on ArgoUML,
> but I can't remember the name right now.
> 
> As for the data modeling, if anyone has found something open source/free
> that has even 1/10th the capability of PowerDesigner or ERWin or Oracle
> Designer, I'd like to hear about it...