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The Book vs. The Booklet |
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Why did I create both The Book and
The Booklet? The Booklet is designed to be read in about 2 hours, and many readers confirmed this duration. It is just 20 pages at all. Not counting the front and back covers with their empty inner pages, the imprint page, the table of contents and the PaRdon commercial page, then it is just 13 pages netto. 2 hours for reading 13 pages netto is already a lot. Every reader confirmed that it is fine to get the core idea, but by far not sufficient to really understand what that means. The booklet also shows the PaRis diagram on three different levels of abstraction (the overview diagram even three times) so that every reader can take a picture with them as a reminder. The booklet is a good guide to making the take-it-or-leave-it-decision. It is also suitable as hand-out for trainings, in additions to presentations. The Book is designed to answer all questions, explain all details and give a lot of background informations. It has as much pages and thereby as much room as needed to do so. It shall also be a guide for many years while establishing the methodical framework in the company. But not every employee, colleague and team member needs to read the book and understand the mind behind. Instead, the booklet and some training sessions with presentations should be fine for them. The Booklet consists of the one-pager upfront, 2 pages for the challenges and the derived needs and 4 pages for the PaRis and the explanation of this solution. The following 6 pages are for tooling, KPI, organization, attitude and teasers for more aspects.
The Book also has the one-pager upfront and finally starts
the 1st part (introduced by a photo of a library) with a PaRamount introduction.
Then it takes 8 pages from challenge identification via need elicitation to requirements
analysis.
While the booklet then directly shows the PaRis as solution, the book starts explaining
the solution from a whiteboard drawing that details the one of the introduction.
8 pages take us to the final PaRis diagrams, still leaving open some requirements
for the rest of the book.
Then we take a deep dive into the PaRis with UML and SysML. The Booklet is available as PDF download for free (also in German translation), and also as print from Amazon and your local bookstore (only in English). The Book is available as print from Amazon, your local bookstore, or directly from me. There is also a personalized PDF that can be requested for download. In addition a teaser as PDF is available for download, showing some key pages.
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