Software Engineering featuring the Zachman Taxonomy
Pia Stoll, Wall, Anders, Christer Norström · Diva portal (Dalarna University Library) · 2009
Software engineering of today must consider organizational- and business issues as well as architectural issues for fast manufacturing of software. The semantics in a taxonomic scheme including organizational-, business- and architecture artifacts would help software engineers define explicit relations between software engineering artifacts at all levels and enable fast and flexible creation of process models for software manufacturing. In this paper we present our software engineering taxonomic scheme, featuring the Zachman Enterprise Architecture taxonomy. The taxonomic scheme classifies software engineering artifacts from the IEEE Software Engineering Book Of Knowledge according to Zachman’s relationship rules and our interpretation of the Zachman taxonomy. The software engineering taxonomic scheme proved to give useful insights to how customer sites and development sites may interact for fast innovation exemplified with the companies Apple (AppStore) and Google. The scheme also proved to be useful for process analysis which is shown for the Scrum process.