Software Methods for Business Reengineering / Edition 1

by Alfs Berztiss

Overview

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 provides the necessary analytical expertise for defining business processes and the tools to transform process descriptions to support systems.

The author begins by introducing the concepts and needs for business reengineering and principles and practice of software engineering. He then shows how by concentrating on processes, a business can define the information base required and how it is to be constructed. As a result, any manager or technically-minded person will learn how to implement the reengineering of a business.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387945538
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/08/1995
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	275
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

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.