Explaining Object Oriented Analysis (OOA) Concepts to Managers of an Organization

It is said that objects occur naturally, meaning that good Object Oriented (OO) model reflects reality. The person who best understands reality is the domain manager; unfortunately he is not computer savvy. This paper attempts to make the manager aware of fundamentals of OO thinking so that he/she feels confident of attempting a first cut OO model of the intended application. Every manager worries about what the proposed software should do for each of the stakeholders for whom the software is being developed. Experiments in industry have brought out that teaching domain specialists about use cases and object concepts make them enthusiastic about participating in the OO modeling of the application. All that is necessary is to expose OO thinking in a way that it reinforces their approach to handling complex situations in practice. This paper is an evangelistic attempt to make managers adapt to OO thinking while conceiving new applications, through easy to understand approach to concepts such as Objects and Use Cases.