ITM 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cardinality
4 Dec 2014
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The nouns might include the following: customer, product item, sale, confirmation, transaction, shipping, bank, change request, summary report, management, transaction report, accounting, back order, back order notification, return, return confirmation, fulfillment reports, prospective customer, marketing, customer account, promotional materials, charge adjustment, sales details, merchandising, and customer activity reports: using other information from existing systems, current procedures, and current reports or forms, add items or categories of information needed, create a master list of all nouns identified and then note whether each one should be included, excluded, or researched further, review the list with users, stakeholders, and team members and then refine the list of things in the problem domain. Compound attribute: an attribute that consists of multiple pieces of information but is nickname best treated in the aggregate: contains a collection of related attributes, so an analyst may choose one compound attribute to represent all these names, perhaps naming it customer full name.
