Agile Models Need to be Bottom-up - Adding Productivity to a Late Project Makes it Later

Pietu Pohjalainen

2012

Abstract

Model-driven architecture is a top-down approach to software engineering. Due to its heavy emphasis on tools and process, it has not been considered to be not a good fit for agile time-boxed iterations. Lightweight models are often a better alternative in agile development. However, we argue that in order to realize productivity gains, these models can and should be brought as software architecture level entities.

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Pohjalainen P. (2012). Agile Models Need to be Bottom-up - Adding Productivity to a Late Project Makes it Later . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: MDDIS, (ICEIS 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-11-2, pages 395-400. DOI: 10.5220/0004155903950400


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@conference{mddis12,
author={Pietu Pohjalainen},
title={Agile Models Need to be Bottom-up - Adding Productivity to a Late Project Makes it Later},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: MDDIS, (ICEIS 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={395-400},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004155903950400},
isbn={978-989-8565-11-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: MDDIS, (ICEIS 2012)
TI - Agile Models Need to be Bottom-up - Adding Productivity to a Late Project Makes it Later
SN - 978-989-8565-11-2
AU - Pohjalainen P.
PY - 2012
SP - 395
EP - 400
DO - 10.5220/0004155903950400