Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present business process point analysis (BPPA), a technique to measure business functional process size, based on function point analysis (FPA), and using business process model and notation (BPMN). This paper also discusses the assessment results of BPPA compared with FPA.
Design/methodology/approach
Two experimental studies with participants from academia and industry were conducted. The following aspects in the experimental studies were focused: similarity, application easiness, feasibility, and application benefits. The purpose of the experiment was to assess BPPA comparing with FPA as the BPPA design followed the FPA pattern.
Findings
Experimental results showed that both academia and industry groups highly rated similarity and application benefits for BPPA compared with FPA. However, only participants from industry highly rated BPPA for application easiness and feasibility. The results also showed that participants’ previous experiences did not influence their ratings on BPPA.
Originality/value
BPPA helps project managers to measure functional process size of business process management projects. As BPPA is derived from FPA, its mechanism is easily recognizable by project managers who are used to FPA. These results also show that both techniques are in most cases considered rather similar.
Agradeço a Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior -CAPES pelo apoio recebido para a realização do "doutorado sanduíche" na Universidade de Oslo (UIO). Agradeço aos professores membros da banca de qualificação, Prof. Dr. Eduardo Diniz e Dra. Leila Humes por suas importantes contribuições para a consolidação deste trabalho. Aos Professores Ole Hanseth, Sundeep Sahay, Margunn Aanestad que me acolheram durante o período de "doutorado sanduíche" na Universidade de Oslo. Aos meus colegas da Universidade de Oslo pelas longas discussões que contribuíram muito para que esse período fosse produtivo e interessante. À Débora Bonifacio de Mello, que cuidou com carinho da querida Carolina durante minha estada em Oslo. Um agradecimento especial ao Dr. Marcio Biczyk do Amaral que abriu as portas do HC e permitiu a realização desta pesquisa. Ao Ivo Guerra e André Luiz Almeida da Secretaria da Saúde pelo apoio e entrevistas concedidas Agradeço a Aurélio José Vitorino,
O tema do Big Data cresceu em importante no contexto das aplicações web e como consequência surgiram os SGBDs NoSQL com o objetivo de obter ganhos de desempenho e escalabilidade. Dentro desse contexto, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo identificar os principais critérios para seleção de um SGBD NoSQL em organizações privadas. A pesquisa identificou na literatura os principais critérios de seleção de SGBDs NoSQL e os verificou junto a um grupo de 32 especialistas no tema. Como resultado, foram identificados 22 critérios que devem ser observados pelas organizações em seus processos de seleção.
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