ERDs, or Entity Relationship Diagrams, are an important part of developing many software projects. They let us see how our data is related to itself, and other entities, so we know how to construct our data sources, such as a database.
They are also good, because they can be shared among the development team, so everyone can stay on the same page for knowing how to complete the project.
If you’ve been following along with this, you might have seen what seems to be a pause. I wanted to give everyone a brief update on what has been going on. The pause in communicate was because unfortunately, I was a little sick for about 2 weeks. Yuck! I know. While I’ve been feeling better,…
Now that I’ve built the application MVP, what will be next? That is the important question of course that I answer in this video. From here, you can see where to go. The biggest effort will be in re-writing the core code base to support multiple types of questions include: Want to follow along and…
One thing that you will often hear me say is that Software Engineers are often not good at things outside their field. Most people aren’t. But because we will often work with other fields, we need to be able to utilize a Subject Matter Expert (SME). That is someone who is an expert in the…
Once you’ve defined the Use Cases for your software project, you can start to identify how will users flow through the system. That is what page or pages (or screen or screens if you prefer) will the user need to go through in order to get to where they need to go to do what…
When you tell your friends and family your ideas, many of them will lie to you… that is, they will say it’s a great idea, and they have faith in you. Well, they might have faith, but if they only think its a great idea because you came up with it, you have a problem….
No matter what type of system you build, it is important that we learn what the end user will actually need. Otherwise we risk building something that isn’t necessary and won’t be used by anyone. As we go through this process, we must identify who needs what, and does it really matter to the success…
