ReeF: defining a customizable reengineering framework

  • Authors:
  • Gemma Grau;Xavier Franch

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CAiSE'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

During their life span, organizations must adapt continuously to an always evolving context and so have to do their Information Systems and the processes around them. The scope of these changes ranges from small-scale maintenance modifications or the redefinition of some business processes to the full deployment of a new system. In all cases, the resulting Information System will seldom be built from the scratch; as even when deploying it for the first time, we may consider that it starts from the description of the current human processes. For that reason, we may consider Information System development and its evolution as a reengineering process. In this paper, we present a framework that defines the generic activity of reengineering using Method Engineering techniques. The framework is built upon existing reengineering methods from different disciplines and provides six generic phases that can be instantiated with the purpose of defining new reengineering methods.