Modeling the World with Four Colors

Description

You can organize the entire world into five categories and represent those categories with four colors. This presentation describes a method to place all your data elements into the five categories and their four colors.

The presentation begins with a brief description of the five categories, continues with examples and tips for identifying each of the five categories and typical data elements in each of the categories, and concludes with a standard way the five categories fit together. The example diagrams use the UML class model notation.

The presentation focuses on modeling data requirements using a common pattern that recurrs in many industries.

To make the ideas concrete, one of the examples is of the meeting and the presentation itself!

Audience

Business analysts, software designers, programmers, data modelers.

Goals

To provide a framework for looking at the world using five categories and their four colors.

After the session, you should be able to:

• describe the five categories in your own words,
• name the four colors and the categories they apply to,
• when confronted with potential new data elements, fit them into the appropriate categories.

Prerequisites

None