Developing Information Systems Accurately

Bert de Brock is Professor Emeritus of Business Information Modelling at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, a position he held for 15 years. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor of Information Technology, in particular Software Engineering, for more than 10 year.Before moving into academia, Bert had worked as a senior researcher at Philips Research, e.g. developing generators for generic workflow software; and he had been founder, owner, and director of Remmen & De Brock, a software and consultancy firm specialized in requirements engineering and designing and building dedicated information systems for various customers.Bert has taught Information Systems Development, Databases, Business Intelligence, E-venturing, and Programming for several decades, both to students and to practitioners.

• - 1. Introduction. - Part I Theory. - 2. Developing a Functional Requirement. - 3. Development Patterns. - 4. Domain Modelling. - 5. Conceptual Data Models. - 6. Directions for Implementation. - 7. Organizing and Managing the Development Process. - Part II Case Studies. - 8. A Non-trivial University Example Worked Out. - 9. Converting a Large Use Case. - 10. Development Example Where Requirements Constantly Change.