Business Modeling in Process-Oriented Organizations for RUP-based Software Development

Several organizations are nowadays not particularly comfortable with their internal structuring based on a hierarchical arrangement (sub-divided in departments), where collaborators with a limited view of the overall organization perform their activities. Those organizations recognize the need to move to a model where multi-skilled teams run horizontal business processes that cross the organization, and impact suppliers and clients. Therefore, to develop software systems for those organizations, the development team must necessarily address two aspects: (1) the development process must be appropriate and controlled, and (2) the organizational platform where the organizational processes will run must be modeled and considered, both in the software development and the target organizations. In this chapter, a proposal of a generic framework for process-oriented software houses is presented and the respective way of managing the process model and the instantiation of their processes with the Rational Unified Process (RUP) disciplines, whenever they are available, or with other kind of processes is recommended. Additionaly, it is presented how the generic framework was executed in a real project called “Premium Wage ” and shown, in some detail, the created artifacts (which include several UML models) during the development phases following the RUP disciplines, especially the artifacts produced for business modeling