Real-life MDA [[electronic resource] ] : solving business problems with model driven architecture / / Michael Guttman and John Parodi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784652303321
• Autore: Guttman Michael
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, CA, : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, c2005
• ISBN: 1-280-74693-9; 9786610746934; 0-08-046835-7
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 pages)
• Collana: The MK/OMG Press
• Altri autori (Persone): ParodiJohn
• Disciplina: 658.4/038
• Soggetti: Information technology - Management; Computer software - Development; Software architecture; System design; Management information systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Compuware/State of Ohio Job and Family Services; Background; Why Ohio JFS Chose An MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve; Challenges; Expanding Goals (or Lack Thereof); How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Project Experience; Organizational Development; Ongoing and Planned Use of MDA; Chapter 3 Soluta.Net/Coopservice Case Study: Facilities Management Industry; Background; Why Coopservice Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve; ChallengesExpanding Goals; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Project Experience; Organizational Development; Results and Benefits; Client Assessment of the MDA Experience; Chapter 4 Select Business Solutions/Austrian Health Authority; Background; Why Hauptverband Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Project Experience; Results and Benefits; Client ; Assessment of the MDA Experience; Chapter 5 Inherit/Harris Case Study: Telecommunications Industry; Background; Why Harris Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to AchieveChallenges; Expanding Goals; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Project Experience; Results and Benefits; Ongoing and Planned Use of MDA; Chapter 6 Data Access Technologies/GSA: Executable Enterprise Architecture; Background; Why GSA Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve; Challenges; Expanding Goals; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor and Training; MDA and the Federal Government's Software Development Approach; Project Experience; Organizational Development; Results and BenefitsOngoing and Planned Use of MDA; Chapter 7 Interactive Objects/Daimler Case Study: Automotive Industry; Background; Why Daimler Chose an MDA Approach and What They Hoped to Achieve; Expanding Goals; How MDA Was Used; Process and Tools; Division of Labor; Model Driven Offshoring (MDO); Project Experience; Organizational Development; Results and Benefits; Ongoing and Planned Use of MDA; Assessment of the MDA Experience; Chapter 8 Summing Up the Parts; Making the Business Case for MDA; Separation of Concerns; Traceability and Governance; Stakeholder Communication; Agile and Iterative DevelopmentThe OMG's FastStart Program; MDA FastStart Activities and Deliverables; MDA FastStart Assessment; MDA Enterprise Architecture Review; MDA Transition Plan; MDA Executive Seminars; MDA Practicum; Appendix: A (Very) Brief MDA Primer; What is MDA?; Different Strokes; Further Reading; Glossary; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a new approach to software development that helps companies manage large, complex software projects and save development costs while allowing new technologies that come along to be readily incorporated. Although it is based on many long-standing industry precepts and best practices, such as UML, it is enough of a departure from traditional IT approaches to require some ""proof of the pudding."" Real-Life MDA is composed of six case studies of real companies using MDA that will furnish that proof. The authors' approach MDA projects by describing all asp