INCOME/STAR-ProMISE: process-centered information system development
Gabriele Scherrer · 1994
s and future users of a system. This is a point where stagewise models have some of their most important drawbacks as they do not provide facilities for user integration. This criticism led to some new software development paradigms proposed in the mideighties [Agr86]: Concepts like evolutionary system development, prototyping, operational specification, transformational implementation and software reuse influenced software engineering. Yet, there is still an unresolved contradiction between two key requirements to process models: on the one hand, they should result in a structured, well-planned development process; on the other hand, flexibility is required. To bridge this gap, efforts were made to integrate different approaches. In the meantime, new trends became apparent in the field of process modeling: Distribution: Systems may be geographically distributed and are quite frequently integrated in networks. This means that pro