Business Engineering with Object Technology

by David A. Taylor

Book Overview

All the ideas, examples and designs are drawn from the author's years of experience in designing object-oriented business models for Fortune 500 companies. This concise, practical book contains proven techniques on applying object technology for the design and analysis of business information systems (IS). Demonstrates how to overcome IS limitations in the re-engineering process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471045217
• ISBN13: 9780471045212
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Required Reading

This is the book that, for me, "made it click". I had been trying to wrap my head around object-oriented analysis for years, when a colleague recommended this book. I read it, and suddenly -- -- I GOT IT! Since then, I have always been one of the few in any workplace that actually "gets" OO design. The thing is, 90% of people look at OO as "data plus functions". But that's only the minimal truth. To really gain the full power of OO you have to go beyond that, and that's what Taylor does. He takes you right up to the edge and even lets you peek over into the vast possibilities: "the customer should know how to bill himself"!! I still get excited about this!! Most people just use accessor methods to make their objects into dumb bags o' bits that are tossed around like big fat dead blobs. Well, after this book, you'll never be that pedestrian again. Screw accessor methods! - give your object an intelligence within its environment. To me, David Taylor is a genius. As a consultant, I purchased this book for every client I had to work for, so we could work at a higher level -- together. As another colleague said, programming is all about communication; objects ARE the way humans think about the world ("What is that thing?" "That object? That's a Truck.") and the most efficient way to discuss something is to use the same language, don't you think? If you haven't read this book, read it. If you read it and didn't think it was incredible, then maybe you didn't get it. Don't worry, though, you can. Just keep trying. It's worth it.

Clear, Concise, Transformational

Pulls you through quite a thought process. Great step-by-step manual. The diagrams and margin summaries would make several classic PowerPoint presentations.

The future of the software creation

A fantastic EASY book (for: programmers, managers and users) to understand the great potential of the object paradigm to fill the gap between technical and business people. I think this is the future of computer development.

Finally... a readable introduction to Object Oriented Design

Thank you, David A. Taylor! Your work was extremely readable, written in "lay" terms though not overly simplistic. I am not a programmer, but have been doing software design for 7 years. Your presentation of the object concept was logical, well supported with examples, and actually pleasant to read. I started another book, and put it down after 6 pages due to the pretentious and pompous tone it took. Your book was extremely helpful as an introduction into the world of Object Oriented Design... Thank you!

Great, practical and understandable.

Dr. Taylor builds a clear case for business process oriented systems development and he can explain what that is, which is unique for IT books. I use this book to help inform key executives about how business objects really work.