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Situation-Specific Business Model Development Methods for Mobile App Developers

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2021, EMMSAD 2021)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 421))

Abstract

The development of effective business models is an essential task in highly competitive markets like mobile ecosystems. Existing development methods for these business models do not specifically bring into focus that the development process profoundly depends on the situation (e.g., market size, regulations) of the mobile app developer. Here, a mismatch between method and situation can lead to poor resource management and longer development cycles. In software engineering, software projects use situational method engineering to configure a development method out of a method repository based on the project situation. Analogously, we support creating situation-specific business model development methods with a method base and new user roles. Here, the method engineer obtains the domain expert’s knowledge and stores it in the method base as elements, building blocks, and patterns. We derive the expert knowledge from a grey literature review on mobile development processes. After this, the method engineer constructs the development method based on the described situation of the business developer. We provide an open-source tool and evaluate it by constructing a local event platform’s business model development method.

This work was partially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the CRC “On-The-Fly Computing” (CRC 901, Project Number: 160364472SFB901) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through Software Campus grant (Project Number: 01IS17046).

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    Use the Tool: https://sebastiangtts.github.io/bmdl-method-modeler/.

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    Download the Tool: https://github.com/SebastianGTTS/bmdl-method-modeler.

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    Project Website: https://www.sicp.de/en/projekte/owlkultur-plattform.

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    Sebastian Gottschalk, Enes Yigitbas, Alexander Nowosad & Gregor Engels

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Gottschalk, S., Yigitbas, E., Nowosad, A., Engels, G. (2021). Situation-Specific Business Model Development Methods for Mobile App Developers. In: Augusto, A., Gill, A., Nurcan, S., Reinhartz-Berger, I., Schmidt, R., Zdravkovic, J. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2021 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 421. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79186-5_17

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