Software Engineering and is Implementation Research: An Analytical Assessment of Current SE Frameworks as Implementation Strategies

In the 1990s several new software engineering frameworks were introduced, among them Rational Unified Process (RUP) (Jacobson et al. 1999),OPEN(Henderson-Sellers and Unhelkar 2000), Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)(Microsoft 2001), and Catalysis(D’Souza and Wills 2002).A significant feature of these is that the software product is developed incrementally, through a series of iterations. This structure not only mitigates technical risk, but also challenges some of our traditional conceptions of the relationship between software engineering (SE) and information systems (IS) implementation as ‘separate worlds’, because the SE frameworks also include activities to secure a successful implementation in a complex organisational setting(Kruchten 2000).

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