Agile and Smart Modeling with UML on the basis of your Project Vision
Introduction to the Goal-Driven Agile and Smart Modeling to succeed with Agile Methods
Since a few years, companies try to customize Agile Methods ( Scrum, XP,...) in order to be able to deliver their products on time and on budget. One of the serious obstacles they meet using such methods is about informal and untraceable requirement gathering that causes extra costs along iterative development lifecycles.
Gathering requirements on the basis of user stories (or use case scenarios) is not sufficient alone to ensure requirement coverage in face of changes. It needs, moreover, to be strongly driven by the project vision. This short case study (14 slides) presentation illustrates below how simple UML and SysML diagrams can be successfully used there to enhance requirement traceability till software architecture layers in order to better dealing with requirement changes using a Goal-Driven Modeling.
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last updated 24.02.2010
Why consider a "Goal-Driven Alignment" for your IT ?
Introduction to the Goal-Driven IT Alignment Process for an Agile Enterprise
Well-organized business process models produce the actual value of the enterprise and puts it into the hands of customers. They permit to standardize work for large numbers of people doing repetitive work, but not fine-tune the results of minute-to-minute decision-making.
Alone, such process models are not enough to respond intelligently to emerging risks and opportunities because their activities are not automatically controled by changing strategies and tactics. SOA Services that trace them at the IT level need to be orchestrated by these strategies and tactics to allow the resulting IT systems architecture to be aligned swiftly and coherently with the changing strategies.
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Aligning IT with Business on the basis of your Goals and Directives
An Overview on the "Goal-Driven SOA" Process using the OMG's UML, MDA and BMM standards
This section gives you a brief insight about how to link your business vision, goals, strategies as well as business rules and processes according to BMM (the OMG's Business Motivation Model) on a short case study. Then it illustrates, using Enterprise Architect (EA), how to bridge the resulting business model toward system components in order to run IT according to your changing business strategies, tactics and directives.
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last updated 22.01.2010
From the Business Motivation Model (BMM) to SOA
Bridging Goals, Means, Rules and Business Processes Toward IT Level SOA Components
The BMM - SOA bridge is intended to offer to business and IT managers a framework that helps them to increase
competitiveness
of their organisation by synchronizing IT systems with evolutions of their business goals and directives.
In this context, the framework provides a brief insight on the links to establish between your business vision, goals, strategies, tactics as well as business rules and processes according to BMM, then presents bridges from these business specifications toward components of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in order to align IT according to your goals and directives...
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How to Increase your Business Agility using UML and BMM on a Goal-Driven Service Oriented Architecture (GD-SOA) ?
Six Steps for succeeding with your Goal-Driven SOA using the OMG's UML, MDA and BMM standards
IT systems that are developed only with use-case driven and object-oriented methodologies do not provide their organisations with good levels of agility in face of changes. This is because such methodologies structure systems only focusing on actor/system interactions that hide business rules and responsibilities. The resulting use case driven and traditional object based systems are unable to be adapted in coherence to changes because they do not offer "identifiable goal-driven rule structures" able to capture changes on related business needs then to propagate them coherently toward IT applications in order to align IT components in coherence.
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Six Patterns for Aligning IT with Business on the basis of your Business Goals and Directives
Patterns for succeeding with the Goal-Driven Service Oriented Architecture (GD-SOA)
Along the above adaptation process, in order to prevent reactivity issues caused by traditional use case driven and O.O approachs, services of the SOA are to be rendered flexible as well as traceable in order to dispose of a swift and coherent evolution in face of changes. Two groups of engineering patterns help us to achieve these objectives.
The first group patterns confer flexibility to service specifications. They ensure identification, traceability and executability of services.
The second group patterns configure services to closing the gap between the business and application layers in order to confer to the system a coherent evolution in face of changes.
last updated 8.02.2009
Animated : "Goal-Driven Development" using the OMG's BMM and Praxeme's Enterprise System Topology
An Animated overview on the "Goal-Driven SOA" Process using the OMG's UML, MDA and BMM standards
This animated version of the "Goal-Driven Service Oriented Architecture" process illustrates on a short case study how companies might swiftly and coherently react to changes by capitalizing on their business knowledge.
Thanks to direct control of evolutions of the business processes by tactical changes on the basis of the enterprise business object model (BOM), the "Goal-Driven SOA" process aims to allow companies to control execution of their business processes and services then adapt them efficiently to targeted situations without expensive changes...
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