Systems, analysis, and synthesis
Abstract
Systems, Analysis, and Synthesis describes the scope of the book and explains the difference between analysis and synthesis. It treats systems analysis as a process in which the analyst is challenged to reverse-engineer someone else’s, possibly dysfunctional, synthesis. It is more important to ask, ‘What?’ and ‘Why?’ rather than ‘How?’
Rather than design a system by guesswork, the reader is encouraged to solve problems at an abstract or conceptual level and derive a design that is guaranteed to be correct. Although an experienced designer can often find a valid design intuitively, experience may be the one thing the reader lacks.
The chapter contrasts compositional and decompositional approaches, ...
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