Polyphony White Papers, Etc
There are a number of papers that explain the concepts behind Polyphony. All of these documents are in Microsoft Word format. Click on the titles to download.
Polyphony Overview
Polyphony - A Tool for Documenting What IT Applications Do
This is a two page description of Polyphony followed by images of several of the diagrams.
Application Design
Application Development Using Context Models
The models Polyphony builds are called context models. This paper shows how using context models, you can nail your application's business requirements. This means more useful, better liked applications, and more predictable project costs.
Analysing IT Application's Support for the Business
This paper shows how you can analyse a Polyphony model for consistency, completeness and practicality.
This paper discusses why UML is inadequate for modelling applications.
This paper discusses the what constitutes an effective design, which underpins the notion of software engineering.
A New Approach to Making Agile Development Scalable
This paper shows how using Polyphony models can enhance agile development projects.
This short article is about large application development in the public sector and explores reasons why there seem to be problems not only with delivering the project to time and budget, but also with developing appplications that users actual like.
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There is also a newsletter and a blog. They both announce when new papers are available and the blog gives you an opportunity to answer back.
