Principles of Modeling: the Concreteness Principle
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In an earlier post, I talked about the Jargon Principle, one of three principles I learned in 1994 and that have not only helped make me a better modeler, but that I have found to be very valuable in many other situations as well. Today, I will cover the second of those principles. The Concreteness Principle Again, not in the exact wording I learned it but paraphrased, here is “The Concreteness Principle”: “When communicating with the domain expert, the analyst shall avoid all abstract statements and questions and instead use concrete examples as the base of all communications; these examples…
