Datasheet

Telling Stories
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FileTrans
Internal
Sales Desk
New
Accounts
Setup
TMS
1. Accept
Delivery
2. Lookup
Accounts
3. Screen
Accounts
4. Enter
Transactions
Transactions
Matched
Accounts
Cleared Transactions
Known
Accounts
Transactions
Unmatched
Accounts
Approved
New
Accounts
Cleared New Account Data
When personal computers hit the mainstream, many more people became
programmers and began writing software for all kinds of new purposes.
New technologies, programming languages, and authoring tools made writ‑
ing software much faster and easier. Analysis and documentation, however,
were still slow and painful. New technologies and development methodolo‑
gies challenged some of the basic tenets of Structured Analysis. If you could
create working software in less time than it takes to write documentation,
why bother? Just get something working as fast as possible and let your users
actually use it instead of trying to decipher some long, tedious document.
Small groups of engineers worked in garages and produced hugely successful
software products. Developers sat next to their customers on trading floors
and made changes in seconds. There was no time for requirements analysis on
these scrappy teams. Developers often made software a bit at a time, releasing
new versions with just a few new features every few months or days.
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