M. Todd Gamble
ABSTRACT
Developers of enterprise software are often admonished to be more aware of where the output of their programming tasks fit within the outcomes of the business which they serve. However, despite recent progress in adopting agile development techniques and promotion of architecture frameworks for greater traceability between IT efforts and business outcomes, such insight is still elusive. Meanwhile the renaissance of design thinking is not well represented in those same "modern" frameworks. We review components of current metamodels for development and architecture frameworks and point out tools from service design thinking that could be paired with the frameworks. Some extensions are proposed to align metamodels to improve the conceptual orientation of developers and other participants in the development process. The linkage between design intent and development is possible, but not clearly apparent in current metamodels.
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Index Terms
- Can metamodels link development to design intent?
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