Speeding up and Simplifying the Software Development Process
Using an Innovative Approach

Still, far too many software development projects fail. The symptoms have not changed much over time. Some of the most obvious symptoms are:

• inaccurate understanding of end-user requirements
• inability to handle changing requirements properly
• insufficient communication between project teams and among team members
• late discovery of serious problems.

Larger surveys covering over 8,000 projects (see Standish Group’s CHAOS Research) indicate that software development projects do not fail due to shortfalls in formal method skills, although they are definitely not irrelevant. The prominent reason for failure lies in lacking skills to properly deal with stakeholder value propositions. In other terms, the issue is not whether project team members master UML or not, but whether they are able to get the requirements right and translate them into software.

Companies need to find ways to optimize the software development process and to make sure that stakeholders and software engineers share a common view of requirements. Business process design is the method of choice when it comes to defining requirements. Business process models are input to generators that produce software design artefacts and program code.

A series of articles introduce a viable and innovative approach explaining how the most pressing issues can be effectively dealt with.

This article addresses the issue how to speed up the software development process while reducing risk at the same time.

Den Software-Prozess beschleunigen - mit gezielter Innovation (German version only) 

Our White Paper provides information about how the software development value chain can be simplified through the effective use of a business process ontology. (Download)

This article discusses the need for an ontology-centric approach to software development.

It is High Time for Pursuing the Ontology-Centric Approach

This article discusses the ontology-centric approach regarding its relevance for business process automation.

Ontologies in Business Process Automation

This article discusses the vision of Ontology-Based Business Process Management.

Ontologie-basiertes Geschäftsprozess-Management - Die Vision (German version only)