Architectural descriptions as boundary objects in system and design work

Authors:
Lars Pareto;Peter Eriksson;Staffan Ehnebom
Affiliations:
Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;Ericsson AB, Gothenburg, Sweden;Ericsson AB, Gothenburg, Sweden
Venue:
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems: Part II
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Lean and Agile processes have resolved longstanding problems in engineering communication by replacing document based communication with face-to-face collaboration, but do not yet scale to very large and heterogeneous projects. This paper proposes a compatible extension to lean and agile processes that addresses this limitation. The core idea is to adopt the view of documentation as boundary objects: shared artefacts that maintain integrity across a project's intersecting social worlds. The paper presents a case study, in which interviews with system engineers and designers were analysed to obtain requirements on an architectural description serving as boundary objects in a telecommunications project. The main result is a list of 18 empirically grounded, elementary requirements, worth considering when implementing lean and agile processes in the large.