Enterprise Ontology: Theory and Methodology
Enterprise Ontology: Theory and Methodology
The relation between EA effectiveness and stakeholder satisfaction
Journal of Systems and Software
Situational evaluation of method fragments: an evidence-based goal-oriented approach
CAiSE'10 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Fuzzy verification of service value networks
CAiSE'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
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Situational Method Engineering concerns itself with the formal, structured construction of project-specific methods from a prespecified set of method fragments. However, before embarking on expensive efforts to actually construct project-specific methods, such as defining a formal method transformation or integration, it makes sense to first perform a value-based assessment. This means that (1) one first assesses what methods fit together, given a certain modelling need, and (2) to make a cost-benefit analysis for the given set of modelling techniques, in terms of weighting the expected benefits against the required modelling effort. We introduce a value-based approach towards assembling a combination of method fragments, called e3-Return on Modelling Effort, or e3 RoME in short. In particular, we discuss the reuse a value-based matchmaking mechanism developed for earlier service bundling work to reason about creating interesting combinations (or: bundles) of methods. Note that we focus our contribution mainly on value-based matchmaking: as such, method costs are less of a consideration for this paper. We replay an experiment on method integration and transformation to illustrate our approach.