Week 8

     Hi everyone... !! this was the eighth week of my participation in the class. We started class as usual, but since a few weeks, we have changed the class to the lab of the library in order to get convenient when students wanted to improve their study on searching information. For this week, I and the other students were asked to form a group of 3 in terms of doing some searching on certain topic. My group was conducting on Methodology and some categories of it. Actually, I did not understand at all about this lesson, but when I did research with my group mates, I got some clear information which was shown by my friends. Basically, Methodology is a collection of Tools, Procedure, and Documentation Aids which help the system developers to implement a new information system. As we went through to the classifications of the Methodology, we could see that there were such a number of them which were very useful. However, the most common and important one are Gane and Sarson (STRADIS), Information Engineering (IE), Jackson System Development, Prototyping/Iterative Approach, and Structured Approach. My group was supposed to conducts on these components in order to clarify the meaning and concepts which would be used in the future.
     STRADIS is based on the building of a logical model system, using graphical to enable users, analysts, designers to get a clear and common picture of the system and how its parts fit together to meet user's meet. IE is an approach to designing and developing information system as well as an architectural approach to planning, analyzing, designing, and implementing applications within an enterprise. JSD is a method of  system development that covers software life cycle either directly, or by providing a framework into which more specialized techniques can fit. Prototyping/Iterative Approach is a program used to show proof of concept to senior management, to validate system specifications, and to explore solutions to specific usability and design problems. Last but not least, SA is the process of developing system or software to meet certain requirements.
    Even my group had found some of these definitions and concepts to make thing clear in this lesson, my lecturer said for the level of my learning now, I as well as the other students did not have to clarify the processes or the method for using of these Systems because it is totally complex for me to understand. Moreover, he said that being in this levels and understanding the classifications of Methodology is adequate for me to analyze.