A helpful path for getting started

Here is a helpful path for getting started with the strategies and patterns in this handbook.

Activities and Model Components

Str#1. "Four Major Activities, Four Major Components" Strategy

Str#1a. "Build an Initial Object Model, then Proceed Feature-by-Feature" Strategy

Identifying Purpose and Features

Str#2. "System Purpose" Strategy

Str#6. "Four Kinds of Features" Strategy

Selecting Objects

Str#13. "Select Actors" Strategy

Str#14. "Select Participants" Strategy

Str#15. "Select Places" Strategy

Str#16. "Select Tangible Things" Strategy

Str#17. "Select Transactions" Strategy

Str#19. "Select Items and Specific Items" Strategy

Str#30a. "Select HI Windows for PD Transactions" Strategy

Str#32. "Select DM Objects" Strategy

Establishing Responsibilities / what I know

Str#50. "Select Attributes from Actual Ones" Strategy

Str#57. "Establish HI Attributes" Strategy

Establishing Responsibilities / who I know

Str#72. "Establish PD Object Connections" Strategy

Str#79a. "Establish HI-PD Object Connections" Strategy

Str#80. "Establish DM Object Connections" Strategy

Str#80a. "ABC" Strategy

Establishing Responsibilities / what I do

Str#87. "Put the Services with the Attributes They Work On" Strategy

Str#88. "Why, Why, Why" Strategy

Str#89. "Basic Services" Strategy

Str#90. "Service as a Question" Strategy

Str#91. "Service as a Verb" Strategy

Str#86. "Do It Myself" Strategy

Str#99. "Establish HI Services" Strategy

Str#100. "Establish DM Services" Strategy

Working Out Dynamics with Scenarios

Str#127. "Select Key Scenarios" Strategy

Str#128. "Where to Begin a Scenario" Strategy

Str#129. "Act It Out" Strategy

Using Transaction Patterns

Patt#2. "Actor-Participant" Pattern

Patt#3. "Participant-Transaction" Pattern

Patt#4. "Place-Transaction" Pattern

Patt#6. "Transaction - Transaction Line Item" Pattern

Patt#9. "Item - Line Item" Pattern

Patt#10. "Specific Item - Line Item" Pattern

Patt#11. "Item - Specific Item" Pattern

Using Aggregate Patterns

Patt#14. "Container-Content" Pattern