Modelling Goal Dependencies and Domain Model Together

AbstractSeveral actors such as human, organization, software applications and hardware units perform our daily activities such as medical care, entertainment and so on. We call each daily activity a socio-technical system (STS), and we also call actors except human and organizations Machines. Human and organizations in an STS become better than ever when new Machines are introduced into the STS and they are beneficial to human and organizations. Although modelling goal dependencies in such a STS contributes to identifying beneficial Machines because such a dependency can represent an actor asks some Machine to achieve his own goal. It is however not easy for modelers to describe a correct dependency. We thus proposed and exemplified an extended modelling notation called Goal Dependency Model with Objects (GDMO) based on strategic dependency (SD) in i*. In GDMO, objects related to a goal in an SD are explicitly specified. Modelers can determine an actor has the right to want the goal to be achieved because relationships between the actor and the objects such as ownership clarify the right. They can also determine another actor has the ability to achieve the goal. In addition, relationships among objects, i.e. a domain model, can suggest missing SDs, and the boundary of an STS can be determined without omission

Agile Manifesto and Practices Selection for Tailoring Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

peer reviewedAgile methods have been largely used for many years to provide developers with a flexible software development process leading to software quality improvement. To get the best results and eliminate unnecessary efforts, the development team should select the most appropriate methods and techniques. The fundamental core of an agile method has to be well-understood before deciding which parts of the method need to be adopted. We believe that the quickest way to do so is to understand the prescripts of the Agile Manifesto. Many researches have proposed different tailoring approaches based on the relation and straight-forward interpretation between each agile practice and agile values or principles. We however have observed that agile practitioners do not dedicate the necessary attention to the Agile Manifesto before adopting agile methods or practices and directly use them. It is because the importance of Agile Manifesto in tailoring context is not obvious enough to the community. This study aims at doing a systematic literature review on the existing case studies, to verify the relation between the Agile Manifesto and agile practice selection