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The integration of goals and business processes models in an MDE context has been widely studied. A specific kind of goals, the organisational goals, are addressed by business strategy. The increasing agility and effect over software systems development of the top-level strategic definitions drive the necessity of considering this domain knowledge into the software development process. However, most of the existing modelling frameworks that consider business strategy concepts are, justifiably, more complex than needed for this specific aim and lack a systematic modelling procedure, hindering their integration in an MDE context. In this chapter, we introduce LiteStrat, a lightweight organisational modelling method for business strategy. By selecting constructs and relationships from existing modelling frameworks, we designed a modelling language and a detailed modelling procedure. We implemented LiteStrat using the ADOxx framework, adapting the LiteStrat’s conceptual metamodel to the ADOxx meta2model. Through a lab demo supported by the tool prototype, we demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method.
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Pastor, O., Noel, R., Panach, I., Ruiz, M. (2022). The LiteStrat Modelling Method: Towards the Alignment of Strategy and Code. In: Karagiannis, D., Lee, M., Hinkelmann, K., Utz, W. (eds) Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93547-4_7
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