Title :
Business processes can be software too: some initial lessons learned
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
The author discusses how his research team at USC has been investigating how and why software process engineering tools and techniques might be applied to problems of understanding and engineering of complex business processes. They have been engaged in process engineering research studies in business domains such as corporate finance, new product development, order fulfilment, supply chain logistics, and military procurement as well as large-scale software development and maintenance
Keywords :
commerce; office automation; software engineering; software tools; business processes; complex business processes; corporate finance; large-scale software development; military procurement; new product development; order fulfilment; process engineering research; software maintenance; software process engineering; software process engineering tools; supply chain logistics; Finance; Large-scale systems; Logistics; Procurement; Product development; Programming; Software maintenance; Software systems; Software tools; Supply chains;
Conference_Titel :
Software Process, 1994. 'Applying the Software Process', Proceedings., Third International Conference on the
Conference_Location :
Reston, VA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6695-1
DOI :
10.1109/SPCON.1994.344410
