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International Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support

International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design

BPMDS 2014, EMMSAD 2014: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling pp 454–463Cite as

A Conceptual Framework for Time Distortion Analysis in Method Components

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 175))

Abstract

The “software crisis” is still a prevailing problem to many organizations despite existence of advanced systems engineering methods, techniques for project planning and method engineering; systems engineering project still struggle to deliver on time and budget, and with sufficient quality. Existing research stresses that time leakage has a lever effect on economic outcome, which is not addressed in the abovementioned approaches. As part of an on-going research project we therefore extend existing method engineering concept to include time distortion analysis. This allows for analysis of resource use (productivity) in execution of method components. It has the potential to act as a) a tool for improving the execution of systems engineering processes, or b) criteria for selecting method parts to improve the systems engineering processes.

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  1. CERIS, Department of Informatics, Örebro University School of Business, Örebro, Sweden

    Fredrik Karlsson, Fredrik Linander & Fabian von Schéele

  2. Saab Dynamics AB, Karlskoga, Sweden

    Fredrik Linander

  3. Linnaues University, Växjö, Sweden

    Fabian von Schéele

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  2. Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

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  3. Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Sem Sælandsvei 7-9, N-7030, Trondheim, Norway

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  4. Université de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, Paris, France

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  6. Munich University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

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Karlsson, F., Linander, F., von Schéele, F. (2014). A Conceptual Framework for Time Distortion Analysis in Method Components. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2014 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 175. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43745-2_31

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