| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M04846/01 |
| Title: |
REQUIREMENTS REVERSE ENGINEERING TO SUPPORT BUSINESS PROCESS CHANGE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Sawyer, Professor P |
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Computing & Communications |
| Organisation: |
Lancaster University |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 May 1998 |
Ends: |
30 April 2001 |
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157,845
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Dynamic change has become commonplace for many organisations. This sometimes takes the form of profound changes to business processes and organisational structures. Unfortunately, when planning process change, the cost of redesigning support systems, operating procedures and documentation to reflect the new business processes is frequently underestimated. To a large extent, this is an organisational memory issue since mush of the cost arises from the difficulty of recovering the motivating requirements for the existing processes and supporting systems. Without this information anew and, in any case, the key people who possess the knowledge may be unavailable. However, the information is often implicit in documents such as requirements specifications, operating manuals and data models. These typically provide definitions of functions, operating procedures and information structures but lack information about how the organisational structures and business processes provided their motivation. This information must be recovered to properly inform the process change and system redesign.
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