Bite sized training sessions:Doing Analysis

Objectives

Understand the importance of rigorous documentation

Experiment with selecting the right analytical tool for the right job

Inductive VS Deductive AnalysisInduction:

a method of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal.

Example: whenever I let go of a hammer, it falls to the ground. Therefore, every time I let go of a hammer it will fall to the ground.

Deduction:a rigorous proof, or derivation, of one statement (the conclusion) from one or more statements (the premises)i.e., a chain of statements, each of which is either a premise or a consequence of a statement

occurring earlier in the proof. Example: All fairies are pink. Tinkerbelle is a fairy. Therefore, Tinkerbelle

is pink.

Which is better? Thats elementary, Watson.

Definitions from Encyclopaedia Britannica 2008

Yes but how?You should have a range of tools:

Driver analysis problems, opportunities and standards

Objectives analysis SMART

Requirements analysis functional and non-functional

Scope analysis scope and context

Process analysis process models and specifications

Data analysis data models and specifications

An exercise in deductive analysis

The names, not necessarily respectively, of the brakeman, fireman, and engineer of a certain train were Smith, Jones, and Robinson. Three passengers on the train happened to have the same names and, in order to distinguish them from the railway employees, will be referred to hereafter as Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Robinson. Mr. Robinson lived in Manchester; the brakeman lived halfway between Lancaster and Manchester; Mr. Jones earned exactly $20,000 per year; Smith beat the fireman at darts; the brakeman's next-door neighbour, one of the passengers, earned exactly three times as much as the brakeman; and the passenger who lived in Lancaster had the same name as the brakeman.

How can you prove that the engineer must have been called Smith?

Deliverables: flipchart presentation that proves the solution is correctwhich will be presented by the other team!

Time: 60 minutes

PresenterPresentation Notes1hr 40mins

Do what you need to do to do the analysis

Use whatever tools you like to document the solution

You could just write out the solution in narrative flow chart or process model it create some custom documentation Venn diagrams Something else!

Whatever you do, be rigorous and document everything as the other team will be relying on your documentation alone.

Questions?

Bite sized training sessions: Doing AnalysisObjectivesInductive VS Deductive AnalysisYes but how?An exercise in deductive analysisDo what you need to do to do the analysisQuestions?Slide Number 8