Research Catalog

Title

Systems design and documentation : an introduction to the HIPO method / Harry Katzan, Jr.

Author

Katzan, Harry.

Publication

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, ©1976.

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Details

Description

viii, 157 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The purpose of this book is to introduce a new technique for describing input and output oriented systems. The new technique, known as HIPO - which stands for Hierarchy, plus Input, Process, Output - is used to describe a system in terms of its inputs, outputs, and constituent processes, and places theses functions in a meaningful hierarchy. The significance of the HIPO concept lies in the fact that it is used to describe what a system does, instead of how it does it, and is thereby useful for planning, analysis, and decision making. HIPO can be used for system design, system development, system analysis, and system documentation."--Preface.

Series Statement

Computer science series

Uniform Title

Computer science series (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company)

Subject

• HIPO technique
• System design
• System analysis
• Systems Analysis
• systems analysis
• System analysis
• HIPO technique
• System design
• Dokumentation
• Systemtechnik
• Systemtheorie
• SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
• INPUT/OUTPUT ROUTINES
• Dokumentation
• Systemtechnik
• Systemtheorie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction to systems thinking -- A taxonomy of systems concepts -- System development life cycle -- Introduction to the HIPO technique -- Sales/inventory system case study -- HIPO diagramming -- HIPO conventions.

ISBN

• 0442242670
• 9780442242671
• 0422242670 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

76009785

OCLC

• ocm02121549
• 2121549
• SCSB-9184065

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library