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Stakeholders are crucial participants for eliciting requirements towards a new software solution. However, agreeing a common understanding among them is a complex task in a project’s initial phase when solution requirements and design need to be refined and/or are unknown. In order to not delay the initial phase and thus endanger the entire project, this paper proposes a process to elicit functional requirements and to design a candidate logical architecture (i.e., without refining information), called Agile Modeling Process for Logical Architectures (AMPLA). By eliciting a set of “just-enough” UML Use Cases, i.e., that includes at least the core requirements information, it is proposed the use of a logical architecture derivation method, the Four-Step-Rule-Set (4SRS). This approach is suitable in agile software development contexts, where the solution’s architecture is not known upfront.
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This work was developed within the project UH4SP: Unified Hub 4 Smart Plants (Project ID 017871), under Portuguese National Grants Program for R&D projects (P2020 – SI IDT), COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2013.
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Santos, N., Pereira, J., Morais, F., Barros, J., Ferreira, N., Machado, R.J. (2018). An Agile Modeling Oriented Process for Logical Architecture Design. In: Gulden, J., Reinhartz-Berger, I., Schmidt, R., Guerreiro, S., Guédria, W., Bera, P. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91704-7_17
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