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A one hour presentation as a follow up for the book "Just the Facts". It demonstrates some of the features talked about in the book which explains how to get from regulations to language, to logical models en other artifacts while maintaining natural language.

NO DATA was presented at the online DAMA South Africa gathering. In the one hour session hosted by Howard Diesel, Marco Wobben presented the problem we humans have with reality in search of truth.

1.  The distortion of the message as it travels from source to target. We have all played the Telephone game and are generally shocked at the distortion.
2. The human brain sees what it wants to see. This video will get you to question your perspective
3. Understanding the purpose of the tools and techniques we use to create/describe our rality.
4. The organization is greater than the sum of the parts. Building a data model, we reduce the organization to a set of icons that on their own don't represent the entire system.
5. The result, if we are not careful, could become part of the disconnected version of the reality.

We rarely achieve a perfect definition of the truth in our first iteration. It requires repeated communication on all levels of the vertical architecture.

It is a never-ending story that we work on continuously, listening to and improving our understanding to support business decision making.

Howard Diesel

Fact Oriented Modeling was presented at the Teams meeting of DAMA South Africa. In the one hour session hosted by Howard Diesel, Marco Wobben presented FCO-IM and CaseTalk.

Marco showed us how to record business facts and use these facts to create all sorts of data models used for communication.

One of the significant benefits of the model is the presentation of business recorded facts that explain and communicate the existence of relationships between the business concepts.

In ERD models, I would write them out in excel and get business experts to agree that I had captured the business rules correctly.

Using the Fact-Oriented Modelling approach, the business facts expressed by the business are part of the model and explain the business concepts and their relationships with other concepts.

It certainly makes the model more understandable and improves our communication.

Time well spent! Be careful to ignore the minor enhancements that can improve understanding and communication.

Howard Diesel

Fact Oriented Modeling was presented at the Meetup group Data Modeling Monday. It's a one hour session hosted by Bob Conway's where Marco Wobben presents FCO-IM and CaseTalk. You're welcome to give feedback, or join the meetup group for future data modeling sessions.

This more extensive video shows how to start a new project, input expressions and model your information.