Systems Engineering for Business Process Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Business Processes, Legacy Systems and a Fully Flexible Future

   • P. Henderson

   Pages 1-9

3. Modelling the Co-Evolution of Business Processes and IT Systems

   • B. C. Warboys, R. M. Greenwood, P. Kawalek

   Pages 10-23

4. Complexity: Partial Support for BPR?

   • E. Mitleton-Kelly

   Pages 24-37

5. FLEXX: Designing Software for Change Through Evolvable Architectures

   • S. Rank, K. Bennett, S. Glover

   Pages 38-50

6. RIPPLE: Retaining Integrity in Process Products over their Long-term Evolution

   • D. W. Bustard, D. Greer, Z. He, P. J. Lundy, F. G. Wilkie, R. Oakes

   Pages 51-65

7. Understanding Change: Using the Patterns Paradigm in the Context of Business Domain Knowledge

   • N. Amin, P. Hall, M. Hinton

   Pages 66-78

8. Combining Organisational and Technical Change in Finding Solutions to Legacy Systems

   • M. Ramage, C. Brooke, K. Bennett, M. Munro

   Pages 79-90

9. Connecting Business Modelling to Requirements Engineering

   • A. G. Sutcliffe, G. Li

   Pages 91-105

10. Interpretivist Modelling for Information System Definition

    • F. A. Stowell, D. Champion

    Pages 106-116

11. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Impacts and Future Directions

    • B. Light, C. Holland

    Pages 117-126

12. The Implications of Information Technology Infrastructure Capabilities for Business Process Change Success

    • J. Eatock, G. M. Giaglis, R. J. Paul, A. Serrano

    Pages 127-137

13. IT Support for the Very High Value-Added Bid Pricing Process

    • M. G. Singh, N. Cassaigne, P. Bussey, V. Papaioannou

    Pages 138-150

14. Social Viewpoints on Legacy Systems

    • T. Rodden, M. Rouncefield, I. Sommerville, S. Viller

    Pages 151-163

15. Co-Evolution and an Enabling Infrastructure: A Solution to Legacy?

    • E. Mitleton-Kelly, M.-C. Papaefthimiou

    Pages 164-181

16. Modelling Legacy Telecommunications Switching Systems for Interaction Analysis

    • M. Calder, S. Reiff

    Pages 182-195

17. Reverse Requirements Engineering: the AMBOLS Approach

    • A. Alderson, K. Liu

    Pages 196-208

18. Reconstruction of Legacy Systems for Evolutionary Change

    • E. Burd, M. Munro, P. Young

    Pages 209-221

19. Handling Legacy IT in Banking by Using Object Design Patterns to Separate Business and IT Issues

    • J. Edwards, I. Coutts, S. McLeod, T. Millea

    Pages 222-238

20. Legacy System Anti-Patterns and a Pattern-Oriented Migration Response

    • A. Lauder, S. Kent

    Pages 239-250

A very large proportion of commercial and industrial concerns in the UK find their business competitiveness dependent on huge quantities of already installed, legacy IT. Often the nature of their business is such that, to remain competitive, they have to be able to change their business processes. Sometimes the required change is radical and revolutionary, but more often the required change is incremental. For such incremental change, a major systems engineering problem arises. The cost and delay involved in changing the installed IT to meet the changed business requirements is much too high. In order to address this issue the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) set up, in 1996, a managed research programme entitled Systems Engineering for Business Process Change (SEBPC). I was appointed as co-ordinator of the programme. The overall aim of this new managed research programme was to release the full potential of IT as an enabler of business process change, and to overcome the disabling effects which the build-up of legacy systems has on such change. As such, this aim addressed a stated objective of the Information Technology and Computer Science (IT&CS) part of EPSRC to encourage research at a system level.

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Information Technology (IT)
• Planning
• complexity
• design
• design pattern
• information system
• information technology
• modeling
• organization
• requirements engineering
• software
• software architecture
• software engineer

• Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

  Peter Henderson

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