Blog 18: Avoid heartaches by documenting data & information flow

A summary of what we did to document the data and information flow for each screen:

We created an inhouse framework for ‘data and information flow’ called ‘IAO SVSR’. This helped the team to be on the same page especially w.r.t data and information flow.

As per the framework, for each screen we had to document the following:

I: Inputs into a screen (data points inserted/inputted)

A: Actions taken on this screen

O: Outputs of this screen (in terms of data/information)

S: Saves of this screen (i.e., the data points saved in a relational or NoSQL database)

V: Validations of this screen (i.e., the data validation activities)

S: State management of each data point field (i.e. what is the state or value of a field of every data point)

R: Retrievals of this screen (data retrievals from a database)

For your reference, below is a screenshot of the template.

Source: In-house ‘IAO SVSR' framework

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