This website contains information that will enable its users
to successfully meet the following challenges:
Business Engineering:
Businesses are rarely engineered.
Business processes are obsolete or inappropriate.
Businesses are often poorly or inappropriately organized.
Businesses have difficulties introducing new
information technology that could enable new applications
that can improve the way the businesses do business.
Businesses are information-intensive and require
numerous applications to support their business processes.
Businesses have difficulties selecting and
prioritizing new applications.
Development Organization:
Development organizations are not implementing the
best industry practices and are sometimes even
implementing known worst practices.
Development organizations are improperly implementing
best industry practices.
Development processes are not properly specified and
communicated to those who will use them.
System Development, Usage, and Retirement:
Systems typically contain large amounts of software, which
is intrinsically intangible, abstract, and complex.
Software-intensive systems are often highly complex due to both intrinsic and accidental complexity.
Software-intensive systems are expensive to develop and maintain.
Software-intensive systems requirements often do not meet customer goals.
Software-intensive systems are typically delivered:
Behind schedule.
With large cost overruns.
With less capabilities than promised or expected.
With inadequate or obsolete documentation.
That are neither reliable nor robust.
Some 25% – 33% of software applications are never delivered at all.
Software-intensive systems are often difficult to:
Develop.
Extend to meet new requirements.
Integrate with legacy applications and databases.
Port to new environments (e.g., the Web, n-tier client/server).
