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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Now that's an interesting point. The company as a whole are pretty new to the concept, but the guy who tendered the work is pretty familiar with it in practice and uses FPA to analyze the potential for integration into existing systems. Looking beyond the client though, the very concept has opened me up to a new way of looking at work. In a nutshell, FPA breaks a 'program' down into component parts and allows you to step back and see the pieces, rather than the whole and then ask some fundimental questions: Is data static or moving? Does it trigger events or is it triggered by input? Does the end user interact or observe? etc... It lets you take each component and analyse it completely independantly of the rest of the suite, which is useful for ouitsourcing work. All they need to know is that this bit passes data to that bit, and that bit is being developped by someone else. I'm finding it a useful tool for planning development too... addressing the core issues, then the snap-ins. It feels easier now, because I'm looking at them as modules, not this hoooooge project which I'm never going to finish! <edit - Apparently it can't stop me making typos though! > ___________________________ Money is the game other people play, that I try to avoid by having just enough not to play it. -Norman Mailer [[url=http://dufty.co.uk]Dufty[/url]][[url=http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?id=698&sortby=rating]Cell 698[/url]] [This message has been edited by Dufty (edited 01-27-2003).] Loading...
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