Engineering Spreadsheet Design for Effective Planning Process
This lecture emphasizes the importance of planning in engineering and how efficient spreadsheet design can aid in the process. It covers the phases of spreadsheet modeling - designing, building, and testing - with an example problem of an Influence Diagram Excel Model.
Engineering Spreadsheet Design for Effective Planning Process
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Presentation Transcript
Spreadsheet Engineering • Builders use blueprints or plans. • Without plans structures will fail to be effective. • Advanced planning in any sort of design can speed up implementation. • Spreadsheets are no different from other arenas of design. • Engineering and advanced planning aids effectiveness.
Spreadsheet Design • An efficient process minimizes time spent. • An effective process yields results that meet users’ requirements. • Good design helps analysts spend the majority of their effort improving decisions, rather than building and fixing models.
The Phases of Spreadsheet Modeling • Designing • Building • Testing
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