Website Goals and Objectives

Website Goals

To successfully meet the challenges facing its users, this website provides managers, technologists, strategists, user experience personnel, process engineers, methodologists, consultants, trainers, and academics with the best current industry practices for constructing processes to perform:

• Business (Re)Engineering including business requirements engineering, business architecting, digital branding, management, etc.
• Application Development(*) including application requirements engineering, architecting, design, implementation, integration, testing, etc.
• Applications Usage including operations, maintenance, content management, and eventual retirement.
• Reusable Component Development including requirements engineering, architecting, etc. of either individual components or frameworks of related components.

(*) Note that application development may include:

• Custom development of one or more new applications from scratch.
• Assembling one or more new applications from existing, non developmental item (NDI) components including:
  • Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)
  • Government-off-the-shelf (GOTS)
  • Government furnished equipment (GFE)
  • Open Source Software (OSS)
  • Legacy components
• Purchasing one or more new applications.
• Enhancing one or more existing applications.
• Any combination of the above.

Website Objectives

To successfully meet its goals, the objectives of this website are to:

• Improve Organizational Abilities.
  Significantly contribute to an organization’s ability to engineer and deliver applications that are consistently:
  • Of high quality (e.g., correctness, extensibility, reliability).
  • Of complete scope.
  • On time.
  • Within budget.
• Improve Processes.
  Improve the reengineering, development, operations, usage, and retirement process:
  • Improve processes and work product quality.
  • Enable continuous process improvement by providing a well-defined and documented process baseline.
  • Manage endeavor complexity.
  • Achieve process repeatability and manageability.
  • Improve productivity and therefore decrease time to market.
  • Improve predictability concerning quality, cost, and effort.
  • Deliver work products consistently.
  • Improve communication among stakeholders and developers.
• Incorporate Best Practices.
  Incorporate proven best industry practices in a unified framework:
  • Incorporate industry-proven activities, tasks, and techniques.
  • Incorporate best practices regarding organizational and team structures as well as complete role descriptions.
  • Incorporate best practices regarding work products such as reusable templates and associated inspection checklists.
• Assist Others.
  Assist methodologist, academics, and trainers in the development or enhancement of:
  • Process support tools and their associated metamodels.
  • Engineering maturity and competency models.
  • Engineering curricula and competency-based training programs.
  • Skill assessment programs and tools.
• Document the OPEN Process Framework (OPF).
  Provide documentation of the OPF that:
  • Is complete, covering all major work products, work units, producers, stages, and endeavors.
  • Supports all involved organizations, teams, and roles.
  • Supports communication among all stakeholders and developers.
  • Is easily teachable and transferable.