Biz Tree Challenge (was: Booch's book feels too philosophical...)


S Perryman wrote:
topmind wrote:

I guess so. OO'ers see hierarchies and M.E. lists where I see sets. I
could force domain nouns into taxonomies, but they are artificial and
have many change spike problems. Your "employee types" as described in
my review of your book is a pretty good example of this. And a real one
witnessed by me: rank and file employees got sales commissions. It is
not a change I dreamed up.

I challenge you to produce a half-dozen biz taxonomies where ME or
trees are a safe bet. Just list the taxonomies in outline format:

Node 1
- foo
- - bar under foo
- floo
Node 2
- etc...

(You can multipley the dash numbers by 2 if it helps improve the
visual.)

And I challenge you to produce a half-dozen "biz taxonomies" from
domains in which you have *actually been involved in developing systems
for* .

No hypotheticals. No "I cannot disclose information" etc.

I expect to see something *real* from you. From your "domain" (whatever
that actually is - because AFAIK you have *never* disclosed any specific
info on what you actually work on) .

Dude, the burden is NOT on me to show that biz trees or ME-lists don't
exist. If you claim unicorns exist, then it is your job to produce
unicorns, not mine. I cannot prove that unicorns don't exist even if
they don't and it is unrealistic to expect such. Unicorns are not
assumed to exist by default. Their existence is considered
"unconfirmed" until the movies or corpses come in. Similarly, biz
trees/MEs are assumed "unconfirmed" until somebody produces them.

Got Trees?



Regards,
Steven Perryman

-T-

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