Authors:
Pedro Valente
1
;
David Aveiro
2
and
Nuno Nunes
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Madeira (UMA), Portugal
;
2
Madeira Interactive Techonologies Institute (M-ITI), Portugal
Keyword(s):
Software Engineering, Enterprise Engineering, Business Process Improvement, Software Process Improvement, Software Metrics, Financial Metrics.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Distributed Database Systems
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Enterprise Resource Planning
;
Enterprise Software Technologies
;
Human Factors
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Legacy Systems
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
;
Operational Research
;
Organisational Issues on Systems Integration
;
Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Project Management
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Software Engineering
;
Software Metrics and Measurement
Abstract:
One outstanding issue in modern information systems development is the Return of Investment (ROI) of supporting Business Processes (BPs) through in-house development and/or integration of business modules from component-based development. Software solutions to solve this problem will usually be based in internal software development processes where the inadequate decision, for e.g. the wrong software framework, may lead to losses that will range from minor adjustment budgets to financially catastrophic situations. Here we propose to use information from the analysis of BPs metrics to enhance decisions related to software design, based on software development effort estimation for the new enhancement, and the related ROI as a path to consistently raise project success. This paper frames a Software Process Improvement (SPI), Enterprise Engineering (EE) and Software Engineering (SE) based-solution to enhance ROI following better design decisions, and provides in-depth relevant considera
tions regarding our future work.
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