Do IT Architecture Principles Contribute to IT System’s Requirements Realisation? - Research Definition of Measuring the Contribution of IT Architecture Principles to the Realisation of IT System’s Requirements

Michiel Borgers

2016

Abstract

The aim of IT architecture is to focus on the essential requirements so the IT system will fit for its purpose. IT architecture principles are the cornerstone of the IT architecture and therefore important in realising the IT system’s requirements. Because the implementations of IT systems fail in many cases and there is no empirical evidence of the contribution of IT architecture principles, we want to investigate the added value of IT architecture principles. To do so we want to develop measurement instruments for both the IT system’s requirements realisation and the IT architecture principles. We then can correlate the empirical results of both measurement instruments so we can determine the extent of added value of IT architecture principles. This is the research definition paper.

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Borgers M. (2016). Do IT Architecture Principles Contribute to IT System’s Requirements Realisation? - Research Definition of Measuring the Contribution of IT Architecture Principles to the Realisation of IT System’s Requirements . In Doctoral Consortium - DCEIS, (ICEIS 2016) ISBN , pages 3-8


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@conference{dceis16,
author={Michiel Borgers},
title={Do IT Architecture Principles Contribute to IT System’s Requirements Realisation? - Research Definition of Measuring the Contribution of IT Architecture Principles to the Realisation of IT System’s Requirements},
booktitle={Doctoral Consortium - DCEIS, (ICEIS 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={3-8},
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organization={INSTICC},
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