The Role of Constructive Diagrams in Systems Development

Abstract

System diagrams help document, communicate, and validate the design of a system being developed. They can also construct new insights into the problem the system is intended to solve and possible solutions. This article describes the use of constructive diagrams in systems design, and an example is provided.

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William C. Sasso

assistant professor of information systems in New York University's School of Business. His research interests include the empirical investigation and descriptive modeling of the systems development process; comparing the elements, organizations, and performance of functionally equivalent information systems; and modeling the chains of activities that organizations use to process information.