Agile Modeling on the basis of Changing Requirements and the 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 enhance delivery of their software products on time and budget. One of the serious obstacles they meet using such methods is due to informal and untraceable requirement gathering process that causes extra costs when dealing with changes !
Indeed, gathering requirements only 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 marketing or project vision. This animated short case study presentation based on the Goal-Driven Modeling illustrates how requirements can be gathered, structured and assigned to system functions to support their traceability till the software architecture level, in order to better deal with changes.
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last updated 6.6.2011
Why consider a "Goal-Driven Alignment" for your Business Architecture and IT System Architecture ?
Introduction to Goal-Driven Business and 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.
But these process models are not enough to respond intelligently to market changes, because they do not really consider changes on high-level business goals (vision, strategies, tactics) and business capabilities.
Services that trace business processes at the IT system level need to be based on the business capabilities, that are to be configured according to service levels expected from the business architecture. They also need to be orchestrated by higher-level business goals to allow the resulting IT systems architecture to be aligned coherently to changes.
Read more last updated 12.02.2011
Aligning IT with the Business Architecture 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 a brief insight about links between 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 18.01.2011
SOA Urbanization : From the Business Motivation Model (BMM) to IT applications
Bridging Goals, Capabilities and Business Processes Toward IT Level SOA Components
The BMM - SOA bridge offers a Goal-Driven Architecture framework that helps companies to increase
their competitiveness
by synchronizing IT systems with evolutions of their goals and capitalizing on their business capabilities.
In this context, the framework provides 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 to your goals and directives...
Read more last updated 23.08.2011
How to align SOA based systems to Changing Strategies ?
Six Steps for increasing business agility by aligning IT to changes on your "Business Architecture"
IT systems that are developed only using use-case driven and object-oriented methodologies do not provide companies with good levels of agility in face of changes. This is because such methodologies structure systems only focusing on actor/system interactions hiding business requirements.
The resulting systems are difficult to align to change, since IT components are not designed on the basis of "business capabilities" (DNA of the organizations) able to focus on goals and changing requirements that have to be propagated to impact system components in coherence.
Introduction : Why Use Cases are unable to align IT systems to changes ?
Step 1 - Describe strategies and capabilities on the basis of business goals
Step 2 - Model business processes that realize business capabilities
Step 3 - Discover use cases that invoke services
Step 4 - Draft the backbone of the "Goal-Driven SOA"
Step 5 and 6 - Describe use case and service behaviours that have to be plugged into the SOA backbone
Read more last updated 05.01.2012
Six Patterns for Aligning IT with 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 guarantee a 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 12.01.2011
Animated : Aligning your Business Architecture Views for a Coherent Organization Governance
A Summary Of the Goal-Driven Alignment Process for an Agile Organization Using The OMG's Business Architecture and BMM Standards
This animated presentation is about the emerging OMG's Business Architecture standard views. It illustrates on a short case study (through a dozen slides) main steps that can help organizations to align their business capabilities, processes and knowledge to strategic changes in order to assure a coherent organizational governance.
Read more last updated 12.01.2012
Animated : Increasing Business Agility by aligning IT with your Business Architecture
An overview on how to align IT with the Business Architecture Views using the OMG's BMM, MDA and SoaML standards
This animated version of the "Goal-Driven Service Oriented Architecture" process illustrates on a short case study useful steps that allow companies to capitalize on their business capabilities and react coherently to changes.
Thanks to its reusable goal-driven business capability components - easily adaptable to changing strategies, the "Goal-Driven SOA" process aims at allowing companies to control execution of their business processes and underlying SOA services then adapt them efficiently to targeted situations...
Read more last updated 12.01.2012
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