May 2008 - Posts

• Warning, Will Robinson - Common, general model designs rarely (never) make for a good physical storage scheme

  Here is a guideline that I once wrote and that is often ignored (at least I have no fallacies about my ability to influence people :-)) ... Do not combine data definitions together into a single instantiable entity when an analysis of the managed environment Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:10 AM by Andrea Westerinen | 0 Comments Filed under: Models

• Modeling prejudices - Being unduly influenced by perceptions of compositions/decompositions and physical boundaries

  In my previous post on designing a model, I discussed the need to view a problem space broadly and via specific scenarios. Since a model is supposed to serve as a conceptualization and abstraction of a problem space, we have to be careful not to be too Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 8:14 AM by Andrea Westerinen | 1 Comments Filed under: Models

• Modeling based on scenarios and our prejudices

  Back to writing about modeling guidelines .... sorry about the long delay in my posts, but I got caught up in some standardization work that you will be hearing about in the next few weeks :-). I want to talk in this post about scenario-based modeling Read More... Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 1:39 PM by Andrea Westerinen | 1 Comments Filed under: Models