There's only one right way to begin an Oracle Designer project: with a detailed enterprise standards document the whole project team can work from - but most developers hate building them. Now, in Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing Enterprise Standards, two leading Oracle experts have done all the hard work! Mark Kramm and Kent Graziano have brought together years of standards-building wisdom, providing easy-to-adapt templates and domain definitions -- and powerful insights for improving systems team development! Learn expert techniques for analyzing, developing, and "blueprinting" any enterprise application. Master proven processes for building and improving your own standards documents. Kramm and Graziano's proven standards, naming and diagram conventions are all on the accompanying CD-ROM in Microsoft Word document templates and Designer archive files that are easy to adapt and share. They'll simplify and improve every phase of the development lifecycle.
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Preface
This book is for those of you in the Oracle world that use the Designer tool to get your jobs done, but dread that one task we all must do: develop a corporate standards document. If you like doing these sorts of things, chances are you already have one, so this book is not for you (unless you are in need of a good sleep aid).
The idea to write this book came from our own painful experiences trying to create these documents on every major project undertaken. We found ourselves constantly writing the same thing over and over again. Each time we had to try to remember all the things we included the last time. What was that one little standard that we used two projects back that helped so much? What was that one we forgot to include the last time that nearly ate our lunch? Sound familiar? This, along with numerous e-mails from the Oracle Development Tools User Group
e-mail list asking for standards, led us to conclude that there is a need for a book that will help Oracle Designer teams get off on the right foot.
If you have had any experience with large (and medium-sized) projects, you already know how critical good, comprehensive standards are to the success of the project. This book is for you! If you have not had that experience, trust us; you need this book, too. This book and the template on the CD-ROM will save you hours of thankless drudgery.
From the Back Cover
“Standardization is critical to the successful achievement of quality in the systems engineering process.” -the authors
There's only one right way to begin an Oracle Designer project: with a detailed standards document from which your whole team can work.
Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing an Enterprise Standards Document brings you:
- Expert techniques for analyzing, developing, and "blueprinting" any enterprise application
- A standards template for system development that can be tailored to meet your organization's needs
- Proven processes for building and improving your own standards documents
- System development standards and naming conventions for all major Designer repository objects with detailed explanations of suggested standards diagramming conventions
- BONUS: White papers on BPM and FHD interactions and Reverse Engineering
The version of Designer used was 2.1.2, but most of the content is applicable back to version 1.2 It is also appropriate for version 6.0, and 6.5. The domain.dmp file on the CD is the only place it makes a real difference. It as built using Designer 2.1.2 and will not work in earlier versions. It should work with 6.0 but will not likely work with 6.5.
ABOUT THE CD-ROM
Contains three powerful tools:
- Complete enterprise standards document, editable in Microsoft® Word and appropriate for any Oracle Designer project
- Oracle Designer archive file containing an application system, complete with pre-defined domain definitions.
- BONUS: Oracle Developer report for extracting business rules from the Designer repository
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The new standard for Designer Standards,
By A Data Architect (Boston) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing An Enterprise Standards Document (Paperback)
I had just finished a short Oracle Designer Naming standards for our Database and Data Architecture group, when I bought this book. It is clear, concise, helpful, and for me, incredibly timely! The Naming standard I created was a pretty bare bones document, created to help our Logical Modelers as well as our DBAs. I incorporated this short Naming standard into the MS Word template (provided on the invaluable CD included with the book), to live on our intranet site. I was able to create this new well formatted, larger, and more thorough document, in less than a week. It saved me at least a month of work, partially by accepting some of the standards that the authors propose, and then seeking editorial reviews from in-house topic experts (rather than the more traditional method of seeking input, writing the standard, then sending it out for review). Of course, I only used the sections that were appropriate for our company.I actually read the book (as in sit down and read, not just browse), and found the style very readable and the content consistently on target. If you need to write an Oracle Designer Standard, it would be most inefficient and foolish not to start with this book.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A well written and authorative guide in setting standards,
This review is from: Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing An Enterprise Standards Document (Paperback)
Project managers/Team Leaders/Leads...: if you're about to start an Oracle Designer project, get yourself a copy (and everyone on your team one) of this book. The authors have done an outstanding job in covering most if not all standards and naming conventions for Designer objects. And boy, do we have objects in Designer. May be the best part of about this book is that you (the leader) won't have to spend months and months of fighting and trying to come up with standards that everyone can agree upon. It simply IS there- take it and use it. End of discussions. Kudos to Mark and Ken.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent guide and CD to standardize Designer developmen,
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This review is from: Oracle Designer: A Template for Developing An Enterprise Standards Document (Paperback)
Extremely useful and clearly written book, covering most of the essentials of standardizing Designer development at an enterprise level. However, the standards document on the CD is the best part of this package. Clearly laid out, most enterprise (especially those just getting started) would need to do few edits to make this their standards 'Bible'. A truly worthwhile buy!
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