Coordination analysis: A method for deriving use cases from process dependencies

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Liu, Xiang ^a   Wyner, George M ^a,b  

^a MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Development approach; IT innovation; Modeling; Software design

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS; COORDINATION; COORDINATION ANALYSIS; COORDINATION THEORY; DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; EXISTING SYSTEMS; IT INNOVATION; MODELING; PROCESS REDESIGN; REQUIREMENTS PROCESS; SYSTEMS ANALYSTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 70350650834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555619.1555642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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