Requirements Management for Net-Centric Enterprises. Phase 2

Abstract

Net-centric enterprises increasingly are found in government and industry contexts. In this research, a net-centric enterprise consists of a number of semi-autonomous organizations that collaborate within the context of a federated structure. Such collaborations may be temporary and of known duration, temporary and of unknown duration, or permanent and known to be permanent. When such semi-autonomous organizations collaborate, they typically have information technology needs to support their collaboration. In the information technology (IT) domain, such needs are called requirements. From a business or organizational perspective, these needs are called capabilities or functions. In designing and developing IT systems to support high-level capabilities, capabilities are decomposed to functions and then to requirements. From requirements, software architectures are derived and then implemented. This process occurs in the context of integrating or interoperating systems. The fundamental problem is how to manage the process of proceeding from capabilities to systems, i.e., requirements management in the netcentric enterprise. This is a socio-technical problem involving inter-organizational socio issues, as well as technical system integration issues. This report provides a methodology for addressing the requirements management problem that includes component methods, processes and tools for addressing subproblems. This methodology is evaluated via application to case studies of system integrations that have strong net-centric enterprise characteristics. In addition, case studies are used to elucidate effective practices with respect to socio issues. Validation of the concepts and results of the research is done via interaction with subject matter experts. Finally, recommendations for future research and technology transfer are provided.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 31, 2011
Accession Number
ADA589806

Entities

People

  • Animesh Podar
  • Barry W. Boehm
  • Daniel Popescu
  • Douglas A. Bodner
  • George Edwards
  • Ivo Krka
  • Jo Ann Lane
  • Kristi Kirkland
  • Nenad Medvidovic
  • William B. Rouse
  • William C. Kessler

Organizations

  • Georgia Tech

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Case Studies
  • Commerce
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Information Systems
  • Intellectual Property
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Social Media
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
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