Aimed at the professional information system developer, the author starts with the basic characteristics of information systems. From there he describes ways to create a model of the needed system and then discusses how to use this model to design the most effective system. This procedure is significantly faster than building a system and then doing a series of revisions to make the system produce the information that management needs to make the best decision.

From a programming standpoint the author discusses the Unified Modeling Language (UML). UML is now about 15 years old and has begun to stabilize around some common ideas and concepts. Executable UML, is much newer (adopted in June 2008). The author has many years of experience in software modelling and has contributed to the theory and practice of model-driven development and UML. In spite of being very technically oriented, Mr. Milicev's writing style is rather open and understandable. Compared with many programming books, this one has a very good opening segment that clearly makes it possible for the reader to understand where he is trying to go.