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Goal understanding and communication of requirements are vital for ensuring that large and complex project organizations collaborate efficiently. We have used a design science approach to explore and address the problem of communication for large IT projects. We designed a method for avoiding communication gaps by eliciting information regarding stakeholders and information flows. The MAPS (Mapping...
This position paper addresses the issue of startups and technical debt. Early stage startups condition makes creating technical debt an almost mandatory decision. Not managing technical debt can be deadly for a startup as fast product iteration cycle is necessary. We here introduce a technique for managing technical debt based on Visual Thinking. The technique addresses the problem of knowing how...
The earlier result of his research showed that most Taiwanese SME designers were frustrated in innovations since it takes hard evidences to persuade their managements, but they are in lack of resources. Thus, this research proposed the SSFD model with ready templates to help them. This paper focused on the third stage of the SSFD Model, i.e. "The Stage of Strategy Formulation". It will help...
This paper proposes a novel approach to develop super quality software(s) using workflows that improves the software code quality by reducing occurrence of software maintenance problems to minimum. It motivates the software development companies to use a static code analysis tool with our proposed modifications. Therefore, the static code analysis (SCA) exposes critical areas at early stages to be...
Visualization of management tools has become a must in the past decade. Its importance cannot be neglected; visual signs define the direction our brain pays attention to, and therefore affect deeply what and how human beings contemplate their environment. Recent tools in business management such as business models include visual elements to support the attracting of attention. A vast amount of literature...
Large enterprises are confronted with an increased need to fully understand the IT systems that support their business applications. Unfortunately, conventional communication trace-based approaches to discovering IT infrastructure dependencies are insufficient to gain a comprehensive mapping of business applications to IT infrastructure. This paper describes BizMap, a novel, information-discovery-based...
Contemporary business market environment has got dynamic character and it's typical by high level of competitiveness. Business markets are strongly globalized; material flows of supply chains are bulky and mutually integrated. In such business environment the companies of particular industries are facing heavy claims on entire enterprise management. As the result of current globalization trend is...
Natural language safety requirements in industrial standards pose risks for ambiguities which need to be resolved by the system manufacturer in concertation with the certificate authority. This is especially challenging for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). In this paper we report on our experiences with applying traditional requirements engineering techniques, formal methods, and visual narratives...
In large-scale multi-project software engineering it is a challenge to provide a comprehensive overview of the complexity and dynamics of the requirements engineering process. This paper presents a visualization technique called Feature Transition Charts (FTC) that gives an overview of scoping decisions involving changes across multiple projects based on previous work on within-project visualization...
We report on an exploratory study we conducted to investigate what kind of diagrammatic tool support, if any, is desired by programmers. The study involved 19 professional programmers working at three different companies. We found that the study participants desire a wide range of information content in diagrams, which would change depending upon the particular context of use. Meeting these needs...
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