| Title | Design Method Requirements for Agile System of Systems |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 69894 |
| Authors | Hawryszkiewycz, I |
| Title | Design Method Requirements for Agile System of Systems |
| Year | 2012 |
| Published | |
| Abstract | The paper defines the need for new and innovative methods for business analysts to analyze and design systems in the emerging agile environments. The paper goal is to provide models for business analysts to identify collaborative arrangements needed to sustain collaboration within continually evolving business environment. The paper begins by describing the characteristics of the emerging environments and the requirements of new design methodologies. It focuses on ways to manage complexity, process integration and emphasis on social structures needed to respond creatively to changes in the environment. The goal is to create an architecture that encourages the emergence of new collaborations in response to changes in the environment and can easily accommodate process change. The collaborative architecture defines the collaborative arrangements and responsibilities to make the collaboration sustainable. The paper develops a framework to describe business networks as a system of systems and ways to model collaboration between the different systems. The paper then proposes living systems theory as the framework for identifying the relationships of business units of different organizations and the messaging structure to support emerging collaboration between the business units. The paper illustrates a way to model a system of systems using living systems theory. It combines this theory with open modelling to show ways to manage complexity, process integration and collaboration. It then describes the kinds of tools needed to support the modelling and illustrates with an example of its use. It uses process outsourcing that involves a number of partners and suppliers as an example. |
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