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Sjaak Brinkkemper - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Method Association Approach: Situational construction and evaluation of an implementation method for software products
2016Co-Authors: Rébecca Deneckère, Juliette Onderstal, Charlotte Hug, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:— Software implementation is one of the important steps in a software engineering process. It consists of integrating software based services or components in business alignment with the Organizational view and acceptance from the users' perspectives. However, this step is complex and not supported in detail by the existing design and implementation methods. When implementing a software product in a Customer Organization with a specific context, the problem of the choice of the method or its adaptation is crucial to ensure the implementation success. Software producing Organizations have difficulty with the creation of the most suitable implementation method for their software products. Situational Method Engineering (SME) proposes solutions to create methods adapted to the project at hand. We propose an approach to build an implementation method based on the association of method fragments, offering two advantages: it facilitates (a) the modeling of fragments by using the Process Deliverable Diagram formalism (PDD) that has proved its efficacy and simplicity, and (b) the selection of fragments by using metrics to analyze them. We illustrate our proposal with a case study to create an implementation method for a personal health management software product. Keywords— Software product implementation method, situational method engineering, method association, feature, method fragment, project situation
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Method Association Approach: Situational construction and evaluation of an implementation method for software products
2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2015Co-Authors: Rébecca Deneckère, Juliette Onderstal, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:Software implementation is one of the important steps in a software engineering process. It consists of integrating software based services or components in business alignment with the Organizational view and acceptance from the users' perspectives. However, this step is complex and not supported in detail by the existing design and implementation methods. When implementing a software product in a Customer Organization with a specific context, the problem of the choice of the method or its adaptation is crucial to ensure the implementation success. Software producing Organizations have difficulty with the creation of the most suitable implementation method for their software products. Situational Method Engineering (SME) proposes solutions to create methods adapted to the project at hand. We propose an approach to build an implementation method based on the association of method fragments, offering two advantages: it facilitates (a) the modeling of fragments by using the Process Deliverable Diagram formalism (PDD) that has proved its efficacy and simplicity, and (b) the selection of fragments by using metrics to analyze them. We illustrate our proposal with a case study to create an implementation method for a personal health management software product.
Rébecca Deneckère - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Method Association Approach: Situational construction and evaluation of an implementation method for software products
2016Co-Authors: Rébecca Deneckère, Juliette Onderstal, Charlotte Hug, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:— Software implementation is one of the important steps in a software engineering process. It consists of integrating software based services or components in business alignment with the Organizational view and acceptance from the users' perspectives. However, this step is complex and not supported in detail by the existing design and implementation methods. When implementing a software product in a Customer Organization with a specific context, the problem of the choice of the method or its adaptation is crucial to ensure the implementation success. Software producing Organizations have difficulty with the creation of the most suitable implementation method for their software products. Situational Method Engineering (SME) proposes solutions to create methods adapted to the project at hand. We propose an approach to build an implementation method based on the association of method fragments, offering two advantages: it facilitates (a) the modeling of fragments by using the Process Deliverable Diagram formalism (PDD) that has proved its efficacy and simplicity, and (b) the selection of fragments by using metrics to analyze them. We illustrate our proposal with a case study to create an implementation method for a personal health management software product. Keywords— Software product implementation method, situational method engineering, method association, feature, method fragment, project situation
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Method Association Approach: Situational construction and evaluation of an implementation method for software products
2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2015Co-Authors: Rébecca Deneckère, Juliette Onderstal, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:Software implementation is one of the important steps in a software engineering process. It consists of integrating software based services or components in business alignment with the Organizational view and acceptance from the users' perspectives. However, this step is complex and not supported in detail by the existing design and implementation methods. When implementing a software product in a Customer Organization with a specific context, the problem of the choice of the method or its adaptation is crucial to ensure the implementation success. Software producing Organizations have difficulty with the creation of the most suitable implementation method for their software products. Situational Method Engineering (SME) proposes solutions to create methods adapted to the project at hand. We propose an approach to build an implementation method based on the association of method fragments, offering two advantages: it facilitates (a) the modeling of fragments by using the Process Deliverable Diagram formalism (PDD) that has proved its efficacy and simplicity, and (b) the selection of fragments by using metrics to analyze them. We illustrate our proposal with a case study to create an implementation method for a personal health management software product.
Diane Sinclair - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a partnership route to human resource management
Journal of Management Studies, 1996Co-Authors: Laurie Hunter, P B Beaumont, Diane SinclairAbstract:Collaborative relationships between firms have been growing in importance, including ‘partnerships’ between Customers and suppliers. Institutional economists and sociologists have different views on the origins, character and consequences of partnership, and the nature of this debate is outlined, as well as the implications for the reality of ‘partnership’ and its role in the diffusion of business practice. Against this background we use case study and survey evidence to explore the transition within the supply chain relationship, from a Customer ‘demands’ model and hence to ‘supplier development’. Supplier development can be seen as an aid to risk reduction, particularly where it involves management control system development in the supply Organization. The partnership implications for the human resource management (HRM) function are explored. Supply‐side partners are likely to be involved increasingly with activities that will underpin the alliance (for example, training, cultural change and removal of industrial relations obstacles to change). These indirect effects may be supplemented by direct involvement by the HRM specialists in the Customer Organization, especially where partnership development places strong reliance on the human resource dimensions of the two Organizations. Examples of this form of development are discussed. This evidence is assessed in terms of the different disciplinary approaches discussed at the outset. What emerges most strongly is that although ‘partnership’ is used to describe many inter‐firm relationships, many of these are very unequal and are recognized to be so, but in other cases evolutionary steps can be taken to reduce the risks involved and lead to apparently equitable alliances. Within this risk reduction process, the role of human resources appears to be of varying importance.
Sari Kujala - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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CBI (1) - An Iterative Process to Connect Business and IT Development: Lessons Learned
2016 IEEE 18th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), 2016Co-Authors: Heli Hiisila, Marjo Kauppinen, Sari KujalaAbstract:Combining business and IT viewpoints in large development projects is a big challenge for many Organizations in the outsourced environment. The goal of this paper is to describe process and good practices that can support a case-study Organization in connecting business and IT development during the requirements definition. The results are based on 17 interviews, an analysis of 15 large projects, process improvement meetings, validation workshops, and a survey. We first identified the lessons learned of the past projects and then defined good practices to be used in future projects. This paper describes a new process to be used by the Customer Organization and its suppliers in the outsourced IT development environment. The principal idea is to iteratively improve the requirements during the pre-study, procurement, and implementation phases of the project. To strengthen the link between business and IT development, the process also contains activities and good practices related to development-goals setting, innovation and business development, business-case analysis, solution planning and enterprise architecture modeling. The results indicate that the requirements definition should be not only part of the IT system development but also closely integrated with the business development of the Customer Organization.
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An Iterative Process to Connect Business and IT Development: Lessons Learned
2016 IEEE 18th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), 2016Co-Authors: Heli Hiisila, Marjo Kauppinen, Sari KujalaAbstract:Combining business and IT viewpoints in large development projects is a big challenge for many Organizations in the outsourced environment. The goal of this paper is to describe process and good practices that can support a case-study Organization in connecting business and IT development during the requirements definition. The results are based on 17 interviews, an analysis of 15 large projects, process improvement meetings, validation workshops, and a survey. We first identified the lessons learned of the past projects and then defined good practices to be used in future projects. This paper describes a new process to be used by the Customer Organization and its suppliers in the outsourced IT development environment. The principal idea is to iteratively improve the requirements during the pre-study, procurement, and implementation phases of the project. To strengthen the link between business and IT development, the process also contains activities and good practices related to development-goals setting, innovation and business development, business-case analysis, solution planning and enterprise architecture modeling. The results indicate that the requirements definition should be not only part of the IT system development but also closely integrated with the business development of the Customer Organization.
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challenges of the Customer Organization s requirements engineering process in the outsourced environment a case study
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, 2015Co-Authors: Heli Hiisila, Marjo Kauppinen, Sari KujalaAbstract:[Context and motivation] The increasingly complex business and development environment brings challenges to IT system development and requirements engineering (RE) activities. [Question/problem] The goal of the case study was to investigate what the challenges of a Customer Organization’s RE process are in the outsourced development environment and what demands these challenges bring to RE process development. The case study was conducted in a Finnish insurance company. [Principal ideas/results] The results are based on 17 interviews and the analysis of 15 large projects. The case study indicates that one of the biggest challenges is to develop business and IT as a whole. When combining business process and IT system development, requirements are an important tool. Another critical challenge in the outsourced environment is that the RE process is distributed between the Customer Organization and the supplier. Furthermore, highly integrated IT systems and enterprise architecture bring demands to RE process. [Contribution] The paper describes a complex environment in which the Customer Organization develops IT systems, and systematically defines challenges related to the RE process.
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REFSQ - Challenges of the Customer Organization's Requirements Engineering Process in the Outsourced Environment - A Case Study
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, 2015Co-Authors: Heli Hiisila, Marjo Kauppinen, Sari KujalaAbstract:[Context and motivation] The increasingly complex business and development environment brings challenges to IT system development and requirements engineering (RE) activities. [Question/problem] The goal of the case study was to investigate what the challenges of a Customer Organization’s RE process are in the outsourced development environment and what demands these challenges bring to RE process development. The case study was conducted in a Finnish insurance company. [Principal ideas/results] The results are based on 17 interviews and the analysis of 15 large projects. The case study indicates that one of the biggest challenges is to develop business and IT as a whole. When combining business process and IT system development, requirements are an important tool. Another critical challenge in the outsourced environment is that the RE process is distributed between the Customer Organization and the supplier. Furthermore, highly integrated IT systems and enterprise architecture bring demands to RE process. [Contribution] The paper describes a complex environment in which the Customer Organization develops IT systems, and systematically defines challenges related to the RE process.
Juliette Onderstal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Method Association Approach: Situational construction and evaluation of an implementation method for software products
2016Co-Authors: Rébecca Deneckère, Juliette Onderstal, Charlotte Hug, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:— Software implementation is one of the important steps in a software engineering process. It consists of integrating software based services or components in business alignment with the Organizational view and acceptance from the users' perspectives. However, this step is complex and not supported in detail by the existing design and implementation methods. When implementing a software product in a Customer Organization with a specific context, the problem of the choice of the method or its adaptation is crucial to ensure the implementation success. Software producing Organizations have difficulty with the creation of the most suitable implementation method for their software products. Situational Method Engineering (SME) proposes solutions to create methods adapted to the project at hand. We propose an approach to build an implementation method based on the association of method fragments, offering two advantages: it facilitates (a) the modeling of fragments by using the Process Deliverable Diagram formalism (PDD) that has proved its efficacy and simplicity, and (b) the selection of fragments by using metrics to analyze them. We illustrate our proposal with a case study to create an implementation method for a personal health management software product. Keywords— Software product implementation method, situational method engineering, method association, feature, method fragment, project situation
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Method Association Approach: Situational construction and evaluation of an implementation method for software products
2015 IEEE 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2015Co-Authors: Rébecca Deneckère, Juliette Onderstal, Sjaak BrinkkemperAbstract:Software implementation is one of the important steps in a software engineering process. It consists of integrating software based services or components in business alignment with the Organizational view and acceptance from the users' perspectives. However, this step is complex and not supported in detail by the existing design and implementation methods. When implementing a software product in a Customer Organization with a specific context, the problem of the choice of the method or its adaptation is crucial to ensure the implementation success. Software producing Organizations have difficulty with the creation of the most suitable implementation method for their software products. Situational Method Engineering (SME) proposes solutions to create methods adapted to the project at hand. We propose an approach to build an implementation method based on the association of method fragments, offering two advantages: it facilitates (a) the modeling of fragments by using the Process Deliverable Diagram formalism (PDD) that has proved its efficacy and simplicity, and (b) the selection of fragments by using metrics to analyze them. We illustrate our proposal with a case study to create an implementation method for a personal health management software product.
