Sebis Research Profile: July 2009

Fakultät für Informatik Technische Universität München

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Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis) wwwmatthes.in.tum.de 

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Research areas Managed Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems of Systems (EAM)

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Social Software

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Scientific staff (full-time researchers) Managed Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems of Systems (EAM)

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Research approach

Application

Informatics

Engineering

Assessment

Application Domain

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Past achievements in applied research

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Application landscape management requires a holistic view

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Business Layer Business Service Layer Geschäfts-Service-Schicht

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Infrastructure Service Layer Infrastruktur-Service-Schicht Infrastructure Layer

Where to start? Which level of detail? Best practices?

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The evolution of an application landscape can be improved by supporting management processes

Enterprise Architecture Management IT Architecture Management IT Project Lifecycle Requirements Management

Identify Measure

Define Measure

Plan Measure

Prioritize & Commit

Implement Measure

Deploy & Migrate

Strategy & Goal Management Project Portfolio Management Synchronization Management

s. Fischer, F.; Matthes, F.; Wittenburg, A. (2005)  Fischer , F.; Hallermeier , T.; Matthes , F.; Wittenburg , A. (2008 ) What are successfulDetails governance structures & management practices?

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Topics of interest in EAM (2009+)

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Sponsors and project partners since 2002

Users Deutsche Börse Systems

Consultants

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Examples of EAM projects with industry partners

1.Metrics for enterprise architectures 2.Architecture radar system for project surveillance 3.Roadmaps for EA evolution 4.Survival analysis of application life spans 5.SIEMENS-TUM center for knowledge interchange 6.EAM pattern catalog 7.Development of an enterprise-specific EA management approach 

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1. Metrics for enterprise architectures

– What are good metrics for application landscapes? – How to visualize metrics?

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2. Architecture radar system for project surveillance

– Information about current projects – Early warning system – What are potential threats for IT projects arising from the architectural environment? – How can complexity of IT projects be measured? – Do architectural anti patterns for IT projects exist?

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3. Roadmaps for EA evolution

– Methodology – Viewpoints – Information models – Document, envision, and plan – What are bestpractices for managing EA transformations? – How to document those bestpractices? – How can constraints for roadmaps be considered?

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4. Survival analysis of application life spans Survival curves: Applications Cumulativeprobabilityof survivingxyears(Px) 1.0

– What are the average life spans of EA artifacts, e.g. applications? – What are appropriate update frequencies for the documentation of applications, business processes, ...? – How long is the current documentation of e.g. an application up-to-date?

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5. Center for knowledge interchange

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– What are successful visualizations for EAM? – What information models are needed for those visualizations? – What are best-practice methodologies?

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6. Enterprise architecture management tool survey (2007 – 2008)

– What are the current requirements from industry for an EAM tool? – How do existing EAM tools address these requirements? – How is collaborative work supported by the different EAM tools? – Do the EAM tools support enterprise-specific information models? – Do the EAM tools support automated generation of EA visualizations? – Do the EAM tools provide support for EA transformation planning? 

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7. EAM Pattern Catalog (since 2006) 

Which concern is relevant for which stakeholder? Which activities are required to address a concern? Which viewpoints help stakeholders to collaboratively perform the activities? Which information has to be available to generate a view? Which activities, viewpoints, or information have proven not be successful? 

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7. EAM Pattern Catalog Wiki (since 2008)

Countries

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8. Development of an enterprise-specific EA management approach

– Introduction to EAM from a business perspective (Deutsche Flugsicherung) – How-to create an enterprise-specific EA management approach (Deutsche Flugsicherung) – Best-practices in visualizations for EAM (Deutsche Flugsicherung, Fraport) – Discussion on EA information modeling (Fraport) – Overview about currently available EAM tools (Deutsche Flugsicherung, Fraport)

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EAM conferences and events organized by sebis

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Participation in EAM-related working groups

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National and international cooperations in EAM

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sebis publications in 2009 (as of 7/2009, view all)

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Social software & domain-specific software architectures Managed Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems of Systems (EAM)

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Tricia - integrated web collaboration services for all members of the extended enterprise

§Wiki collaboration §Personal & team blogging §File & directory sharing §Social networking §Content publishing & site navigation §Mandatory access policies defined dynamically, decentralized and at different levels of granularity. § 090726-sebis-Research-Profile

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Hybrid Wiki Traditional Wiki:

Unstructured Hypertext

Hybrid Wiki  attributes, relationships and types complement text  both can be attached to any content object  unstructured information is gradually transformed into a schema-based form 090726-sebis-Research-Profile

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Enterprise 2.0 Survey

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See online version for more details

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Tric ia

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Courses offered by sebis at TU München GRes

English

Guided Research (Forschungsarbeit unter Anleitung)

Master

Winter

Vorlesung: Einführung in die Softwaretechnik

Guided Research Lecture

EIST

German

Bachelor

Summer

SEIP (BIRU)

German

Vorlesung: Software Engineering in der industriellen Praxis

Lecture

Bachelor

Winter

SEBA Bachelor

German

Vorlesung: Software Engineering betrieblicher Anwendungen - Bachelorkurs Lecture

Bachelor

Winter

SEBA Master

German & Vorlesung: Software Engineering für betriebliche Anwendungen English Masterkurs

Lecture

Master

Summer

SITM

German

Lecture

Master

Winter

SoftArch

German & Vorlesung: Softwarearchitekturen English

Lecture

Master

Winter

WebApp

German & Vorlesung: Web-Anwendungen - Konzepte, Softwarearchitekturen undLecture Technologien Master English

Summer

GFSU

German

Seminar: Gründung und Führung kleiner softwareorientierter Unternehmen Seminar

Bachelor

Summer

PSem

German

Proseminar: Web Services: Architekturen und Standards

Bachelor

On demand

HSem

German

Hauptseminar: Modellierung, Simulation und Steuerung adaptiver soziotechnischer Seminar Systeme Bachelor

On demand

OSem

German

Oberseminar des Lehrstuhls sebis

DSem

German

Doktorandenseminar: Software Engineering betrieblicher Informationssysteme Seminar

PhD

Summer & Winter

DBIS

German

Bachelor-Praktikum Datenbanken und Informationssysteme

Lab Course

Bachelor

Summer & Winter

PWebApp

German & Master-Praktikum: Webanwendungen English

Lab Course

Master

Winter

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Vorlesung: Strategisches IT Management

Seminar

Seminar

BSc&MSc Summer & Winter

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