Software Methods for Business Reengineering
It is said that business re-engineering is part of our transition to a post-industrial society. The purpose of this book is to present an approach to how to reorganize businesses using the discipline of software engineering as a guiding paradigm. The author's thesis is that software engineering...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1996, 1996
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1996 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I. What is Business Reengineering
- 1. The Established and the Reengineered
- 2. Business Reengineering is Not New
- 3. The Purpose of Reengineering
- 4. Steps in the Reengineering Effort
- 5. Making the Most of Human Resources
- 6. The Nature of a Process
- II. What is Software Engineering
- 7. Engineering Principles in Software Development
- 8. Classifications of Software
- 9. Modularization and Requirements Engineering
- 10. Software Quality Attributes
- 11. The Software Development Process
- 12. Software Cost and Risk Estimation
- III. Business Analysis
- 13. Analysis of Business Activities
- 14. Individual Interviews
- 15. Group Sessions
- 16. Business Process Prototyping
- IV. The Reengineering Blueprint
- 17. From Natural Language to Entities and Relationships
- 18. State Transitions and Control Flows
- 19. Control Flows in Terms of Petri Nets
- 20. From ER Diagrams to Information Modules
- 21. From Flow Diagrams to Process Modules
- 22. Validation of the Blueprint
- V. Information-Control Systems
- 23. Specification of Business Processes
- 24. The Specification Language SF
- 25. An SF Specification: An Editorial Office
- 26. A Case Study: Order Processing
- VI. Implementation of Reengineering
- 27. The Reengineering Process
- 28. Determination of Priorities
- 29. Legacy Software
- 30. The Communication Infrastructure
- 31. User Interfaces
- 32. Maintainability and Reusability
- Appendices
- A. Basic Mathematical Notations
- B. A Reading Guide
- References