Business and Software Modeling Traceability

The Goals Approach is a Business-driven Software Engineering process that develops both business and software models using a single language to build a single and traceable architecture. The Goals Approach is directed to Business Owners, Service Designers, Business Process Managers, Software Architects, User Interface Designers and Software Developers, whom guided by an Enterprise Development Process, may model in only 8 Steps, using 10 concepts, the: (1) Service Design, (2) Business Process Design, (3) Enterprise Structure, (4) Task Model, (5) User Interface Design, (6) Business Logic and (7) Database, to fulfill the (8) final Software Architecture. The Software Architecture includes the Enterprise Structure composing the Enterprise Architecture, bringing "equilibrium" to the need to maintain business and software architectural control and also to develop agile solutions, ensuring traceability, targeting development productivity. The book includes 2 enterprise (business+software) development projects, presenting the Steps of the method, the applied techniques, and the produced artifacts. The Goals Approach is oriented for in-house software development. Foreword by Nuno Nunes.

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Pedro made his academic and most of his professional career as a software architect and developer in the University of Madeira, where he also made his MSc and PhD, and applied and developed the Goals Approach in over 20 recurrently successful software projects for over 10 years. He continuously studies and evolves the art of developing software.