Improving Software Design Decisions towards Enhanced Return of Investment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Silva

Winckler

et al. 2016

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OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. This is an author-deposited version published in : http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/ Eprints ID : 18843The contribution was presented at HCSE 2016:http://www.hcse-hessd.org/ Abstract. Business Process Improvement (BPI) is a key issue in the development of the enterprise competitiveness. However, achieving a level of software development performance that matches enterprise BPI needs in terms of producing noticeable results in small amounts of time requires the existence of a comprehensive and also agile Software Development Process (SDP). Quite often, SDPs do not deliver software architectures that can be directly used for in-house development, as specifications are either too close to the user interface design or too close to business rules and application domain modeling, and produce architectures that do not cope with software development concerns. In this paper we present the Goals Approach, which structures business processes to extract requirements, and methodologically details them in order to specify the user interface, the business logic and the database structures for the architecture of a BPI. Our approach aims in-house software development in small and medium enterprises.

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confidence: 99%

The Goals Approach: Enterprise Model-Driven Agile Human-Centered Software Engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Silva

Winckler

et al. 2016

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“…Software development within enterprises still lacks effectiveness as project full-success rates are still as low as about 30 % [1,2]. Despite this fact, efforts in SE have at least taken us from a chaotic state of the practice [3], to a more inspiring situation where expertized executive management support, user involvement in the development process and agile techniques are appointed as factors of project success [4,5].…”

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confidence: 99%

Bridging Enterprise and Software Engineering Through an User-Centered Design Perspective

Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2016

Silva²,

Winckler³

et al. 2016

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OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. Abstract. The development of Web-based Information Systems is crucial in the quest to maintain and develop the enterprise competiveness. However, capturing requirements from Business Processes (BP) is still an issue, as existing methods mostly focus, or on human aspects and the user interface, or on business concerns as rules and workflow coordination, and therefore do not specify all the Software Architectural components which are relevant for software development. We present the Goals Approach, which analyzes BPs and User Tasks and details them in the process of methodically designing and structuring the User Interface, the Business Logic and the Database of the Information System given a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern. In this paper we focus on how to obtain the Goals business model of requirements based on the DEMO method. The approach can be used for in-house software development, and the method is straightforward fitting Small and Medium Enterprises agility needs.

“…Software development within enterprises still lacks accuracy, and effectiveness is still far from being achieved as project full-success rates are still as low as 30% [1], and there is still a long bridge to cross until software development within enterprises is achieved in a patterned way, and established as a consistent source of revenue following investment within enterprises [2]. Nevertheless, the advances of Software Engineering (SE) have at least taken us from a chaotic state of the practice [3], to a more inspiring situation where enhanced executive management support, agile methods, and increased user involvement are appointed as factors for software project success [4].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Goals Approach: Agile Enterprise Driven Software Development

Complexity in Information Systems Development

Silva

Winckler

et al. 2017

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OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. Abstract. Continuous Business Process Improvement (BPI) is necessary in order to maintain and develop the enterprise competitiveness. However, achieving a level of software development performance that matches enterprise needs in terms of producing noticeable results within small amounts of time is a persnickety task, mainly because most available methods do not deliver full software architectures that can be directly used for in-house software development without iterations between implementation and design, as produced specifications are too close to the user interface, or too close to business regulations and domain modeling. Our approach applies a method that structures business processes, business rules and domain concepts, and uses this information in order to identify user tasks (use cases) and interaction spaces, and by means of their detail, methodically specify the software architecture for a particular BPI, bridging business and software using cross-consistent concepts. We present a theoretical example, and the validation of our method.