VALIDATION OF A MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK OF BUSINESS PROCESS AND SOFTWARE SYSTEM ALIGNMENT

Lerina Aversano, Carmine Grasso, Maria Tortorella

2010

Abstract

The alignment degree existing between a business process and the supporting software systems expresses how the software systems support the business process. This measure can be used for indicating business requirements that the software systems do not implement. Methods are needed for detecting the alignment level existing between software systems and business processes and identifying the software changes to be performed for increasing and keeping an adequate alignment level. This paper proposes a framework including a set of metrics codifying the alignment concept with the aim of measuring it, detecting misalignment, identifying and performing software evolution changes. The framework is, then, validated through a case study.

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in Harvard Style

Aversano L., Grasso C. and Tortorella M. (2010). VALIDATION OF A MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK OF BUSINESS PROCESS AND SOFTWARE SYSTEM ALIGNMENT . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-06-5, pages 470-474. DOI: 10.5220/0002903704700474


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={Lerina Aversano and Carmine Grasso and Maria Tortorella},
title={VALIDATION OF A MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK OF BUSINESS PROCESS AND SOFTWARE SYSTEM ALIGNMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={470-474},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002903704700474},
isbn={978-989-8425-06-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - VALIDATION OF A MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK OF BUSINESS PROCESS AND SOFTWARE SYSTEM ALIGNMENT
SN - 978-989-8425-06-5
AU - Aversano L.
AU - Grasso C.
AU - Tortorella M.
PY - 2010
SP - 470
EP - 474
DO - 10.5220/0002903704700474