Business Family Engineering Does it make sense ?

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Business Family EngineeringDoes it make sense ?
Ildefonso Montero, Joaquín Peña and Antonio
Ruiz-Cortés
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The Path

• Introduction
• Process Family Engineering
• Business Family Engineering
• Conclusions

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Introduction

• Problem Companies need to adapt to market
  changes. It implies that IT infrastructure must
  evolve and support BPM

SPL
BPM
One company Process Family Engineering
Multiple Companies

• Our approach Business Family Engineering

• Goal Does it make sense ?

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Introduction

• Preliminaries SPL in a nutshell

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The Path

• Introduction
• Process Family Engineering
• Business Family Engineering
• Conclusions

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Process Family Engineering

• A first step Process Family Engineering

• Motivation
• Business must adapt to market changes how do we
  manage these changes? SPL
• Variant-rich processes business as an evolving
  system

• Goal Does it make sense ?

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Process Family Engineering

• A motivating example of Process Family Engineering

1 fast-food restaurant company
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Process Family Engineering

• Variant-rich processes

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Process Family Engineering

• A business as an evolving system

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The Path

• Introduction
• Process Family Engineering
• Business Family Engineering
• Conclusions

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Business Family Engineering

• A new step Business Family Engineering

• Motivation
• Variant-rich processes and businesses
• A product line of businesses
• Each business as an evolving system
• Top abstraction level

• Goal Does it make sense ?

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Business Family Engineering

• A motivating example of Business Family
  Engineering

N fast-food restaurant company
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Business Family Engineering

• What happens when

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Business Family Engineering

• Situation
• Common processes in several businesses
• Evolving businesses
• Lets reuse !

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Business Family Engineering
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Business Family Engineering
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Business Family Engineering

• Result A product line of evolving BDD systems

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Conclusions and Future Work

• Do you remember the title ?

Business Family EngineeringDoes it make sense ?

• Challenges
• Definition of the software process
• Obtain a core process framework
• Build BFE products
• Product Evolution Model
• Composition/addition of features based on
  processes, MDD,

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Thanks!
Ildefonso Montero Pérez monteroperez_at_us.es Joaquí
n Peña joaquinp_at_us.es Antonio Ruiz-Cortés aruiz_at_u
s.es