SSADM-the open methodology

Structured systems analysis and design method, SSADM, was ten years old in 1991. System development managers look increasingly to SSADM to be their structured approach to system design. It is being published as a British standard in time for 1992. It is taught in polytechnics and colleges of education. It is supported by a large and competing supplier industry of trainers; consultancies; freelance staff and computer aided software engineering tool vendors. The author discusses what gives SSADM its competitive advantage over commercial methodologies. The following areas are examined: SSADM development; SBADM as one of the open methodologies; structural overview of SSADM; and SSADM´s competitive advantage.<>