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General Board / BRD and SDD new releases

« on: March 20, 2022, 01:38:01 am »

March is a great month, besides what is happening in the world we have updated both of my eBooks:

UML-ERP Workshop at www.leanpub.com
Designing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System with the UML modeling tool, Enterprise Architect.

1-Writing a Business Requirement Document (BRD) for the Inventory module.
2-Writing a Software Design Document (SDD) a Data Driven Report Engine.

Anyone trying to develop a system within their organization has been faced with many competing demands. Demands come from those responsible for establishing the guidance for the organization, the industry standards that are designed to assist in establishing direction, the features provided by the available tool sets in this space, and those who are impacted by the direction as they attempt to do their daily work. I will teach you how I have implemented in different organizations how to write a BRD and an SDD.
There is no shortage of articles about the right or best way to create a BRD or an SDD, and there are lots of potential approaches, you can learn the concepts by completing inter-actives exercises with what UML-ERP Workshop offers you.

You can purchase the BRD or the SDD at Leanpub.com, or we have an offer to buy both as a bundle.

Happy reading guys.

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General Board / New release 1.8 SDD UML-ERP Workshop with EA

« on: July 04, 2020, 08:32:41 am »

Hi All

A new version with two new chapters of my eBook on how to create a Software Design Document (SDD), building a Data Driven Report Engine for any web based application. In this eBook we present all the classes, tables, indexes, and diagrams that any architect or developer can create following our UML design to develop a web based engine with SQL tables as back-end. The engine should work with any report writer in the market, we used R&R Report Works®.

https://leanpub.com/umlerpworkshop-report-sdd

Happy reading

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General Board / Just published a new eBook, this time a Software Design Document (SDD)

« on: June 07, 2020, 06:15:34 am »

Hi All

A technical eBook on how to create a Data Driven Report Engine in any web based application. The original engine was developed in Windows with a Fox Pro database as back-end. In this eBook we present all the classes, tables, indexes, and diagrams that any architect or developer can create following our UML design to develop a web based engine with SQL tables as back-end. The engine should work with any report writer in the market, we used R&R Report Writer which was afterwards named R&R Report Works®.

https://leanpub.com/umlerpworkshop-report-sdd

Happy reading

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General Board / New release 3.3 Zetapro UM-ERP Workshop with EA

« on: August 15, 2019, 12:47:12 am »

Hi

Have released my eBook: Zetapro UML-ERP Workshop with EA
updated to EA version 15.

You can find it at
https://leanpub.com/uml-erpworkshop

Happy reading

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General Board / UML ERP Workshop published 5 eBooks

« on: December 18, 2018, 08:53:51 am »

Hi All

UML - ERP Workshop - Writing a Business Requirement Document (BRD with) Enterprise Architect

After several years updating the eBook I have decided to divide the BRD in functional section with new prices, each section will cover a different part: (1) the Processes covers the transaction processes, (2) the Maintenance covers the data entry, (3) the Report covers how to run reports and finally, the (4) Settings covers how to set up parameters for a system. If you still want all of them together you can still get the (5) Full BRD.   

(1) https://leanpub.com/umlerpworkshop-process-brd

(2) https://leanpub.com/umlerpworkshop-maintenance-brd

(3) https://leanpub.com/umlerpworkshop-report-brd

(4) https://leanpub.com/umlerpworkshop-settings-brd

(5) https://leanpub.com/uml-erpworkshop

These 5 books helps you design an application with the UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling tool, Enterprise Architect.It shows you how to write a Business Requirement Document (BRD) using a real-life Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, an application with 20 years in the market.

Thanks all for your support.

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General Board / UML-ERP Workshop with EA - 100% Completed

« on: June 03, 2017, 10:32:04 pm »

Hi Guys

Last month after many long nights have finally completed my eBook "UML-ERP Workshop with EA" at Leanpub:
https://leanpub.com/uml-erpworkshop

This book helps you design an application with the UML modeling tool, Enterprise Architect.
It shows you how to write a Business Requirement Document (BRD) using a real-life Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system,
an application with 15 years in the market.
Also you can contact me directly via email with any question.

Happy reading

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General Board / UML - ERP Workshop with Enterprise Architect, recently updated to version 2.3

« on: January 27, 2017, 11:58:23 am »

Hi All

Version 2.3 of UML-ERP Workshop enhancements:

1. Enhanced and added new features to chapters 3 and 4.
2. All Reports Use Cases and Activity Diagram completed
3. New Operative Business Rules for Reports and Dialog Windows

The book is 98% complete, it has been a long road.

Get it here
https://leanpub.com/uml-erpworkshop

Happy reading

Jose Zouain

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General Board / MariaDB suuport

« on: June 21, 2016, 08:50:33 am »

Hi All

After playing with MariaDB for several hours and is so similar to MySql.

Did all my steps to install MariaDB, downloaded and ODBC Driver 2.0.11 win 32, run the scrips at the MariaDB Server to create empty EA Tables.
All OK, have connection to the DB Server.

When I did the last step:
Project | Data Management | Project Transfer, I get an error message:

"The selected target database driver is not supported by EA"

I see that MariaDB is not supported. But looking at the similarity of MySQL and MariaDB I though it would do the transfer.

Any help can be appreciated.
Thanks

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General Board / UML - ERP Workshop with Enterprise Architect, recently updated to version 2.1

« on: April 10, 2016, 07:10:28 am »

Hi All

Version 2.1 of UML-ERP Workshop enhancements:

1. Enhanced and added new features to chapters # 2, # 3 and # 4.
2. Multiple Vendor use case and activity diagram
3. Inventory Forecast Adjust use case and activity diagram
4. Inventory Adjustment use case and activity diagram
5. New requirements added to RIP07 - Assign Serial to Inventory
6. Changed use case UIP07 Assign Serial to Inventory version 7.6 and described difference per version
7. Added new screen and activity diagram for Assign Serial to Inventory version 7.6
8. Revised the Operative Business Rules Headings
9. Added a new Metric Business Rules - Process Function

For Sale - All purchases are via Paypal please send me a private email to [email protected]

1. The IC-BRD complete project exported to XML format to be imported into Enterprise Architect for $99
2. The report template that generates the eBook for $39
3. The Master Document package with all the Master Template for $69

Happy reading

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General Board / UML - ERP Workshop with Enterprise Architect, recently updated to version 2.0

« on: March 07, 2016, 02:53:12 pm »

Hi All

UML - ERP Workshop with Enterprise Architect, recently updated to version 2.0 - 85% completed.

https://leanpub.com/uml-erpworkshop

Tells you how to design and document your application in EA, this particular volume 1, tells you how to slice and divide your Business Requirement Document (BRD), telling you the flow of the screens, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams.

In this release the following:

- Added new chapter “Managing Requirements in EA”
- Added different versions of requirements for option "Serial and Lot Assignments"
- added comparison of activity diagrams for option "Assign Serial to Inventory" based on the new requirements

Thanks all for your support.

Jose Zouain
Zeta Concepts, Inc.

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General Board / UML-ERP Workshop with EA - recently updated Version 1.9

« on: January 04, 2016, 02:47:20 am »

Hi All

UML - ERP Workshop with Enterprise Architect, recently updated to version 1.9 - 80% completed.

https://leanpub.com/uml-erpworkshop

Tells you how to design and document your application in EA, this particular volume 1, tells you how to slice and divide your Business Requirement Document (BRD), telling you the flow of the screens, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams.

See how Business Rules are written in EA with the Corporate or Professional versions, which will get translated into Classes, Sequence, Data Model and so on, when the TDD (Technical Design Document) is written.

Thanks all for your support.

Jose Zouain
Zeta Concepts, Inc.

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General Board / UML-ERP Workshop with EA - recently updated

« on: October 12, 2015, 09:00:57 am »

Hi All

UML - ERP Workshop with Enterprise Architect, recently updated and with a new discounted price for limited time.

https://leanpub.com/uml-erpworkshop

Tells you how to design and document your application in EA, this particular volume 1, out of several that I will be writing in the future, tells you how to slice and divide your Business Requirement Document (BRD), telling you the flow of the screens, Use Cases, Activity Diagrams.

See how Business Rules are written in EA with the Corporate or Professional versions, which gets translated into Classes, Sequence, Data Model and so on, when the TDD (Technical Design Document) is written.

Thanks all for your support.

Jose Zouain
Zeta Concepts, Inc.

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General Board / ERP Workshop with Enterprise Architect - rel. 1.6

« on: August 15, 2015, 09:38:29 am »

eBook updated today 2015-08-15.

As a UML evangelist I have decided to show the world the system I designed and helped develop, Zeta Pro ™.

Download your FREE sample
https://leanpub.com/uml-erpworkshop

Thank you all for your support.

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General Board / UML Workshop with Enterprise Architect

« on: August 02, 2015, 12:35:08 pm »

All

Finally my first eBook published.

As a UML evangelist I have decided to show the world the system I designed and helped develop, Zeta Pro ™.

Have been planning and discussing this project with friends for over two years, and finally has decided to go ahead and move forward with it.

Search for ERP Workshop with Enterprise Architect at www.leanpub.com and download your FREE sample.

Thank you all for your support.

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General Board / Use Case - Uses and Result

« on: October 26, 2013, 03:27:04 am »

Hi All

I use very often in my Use Cases the Uses and Result columns in each step. The Uses -> I use it for my Business Rule or message at the step level, same for the Result -> I use it for the Log Event, which database to write and what to write.

My question is how can I add a word before the Uses and Result and print them only if the step has a Uses or Result.

If I add the 2 words, it allways print them and it doesn't look good, see my example:

1. User inputs name Uses BR01
2. User imputs last name  Uses BR02
3. User inputs email Uses - No Busines Rule, but still prints Uses

{Scenario_Structured.Step}. {Scenario_Structured.Action} Uses {Scenario_Structured.Uses} Result {Scenario_Structured.Result}

Is there a way to exclude the "Uses" and "Result" word  if nothing is included at the column level, if I don't include the "Uses" and "Result", everything works great, it only print if we have someting in the column.

Thanks in advance