Software Process Engineering Management RFPSecond Submission

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Software Process Engineering Management
RFPSecond Submission

• The Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM)
• Philippe Kruchten, Rational SoftwareSpokesperson

Orlando, December 13th, 2000
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A New Joint Submission to OMG from

• IBM Corporation, Steve Cook,scook_at_acm.org
• Rational Software, Philippe Kruchten,
  pbk_at_rational.com
• Fujitsu/DMR, Pierre Montminy, Pierre_Montminy_at_dmr.
  ca
• SofTeam, Philippe Desfray, Philippe.Desfray_at_softea
  m.fr
• Unisys, Sridhar Iyengar, Sridhar.Iyengar2_at_unisys.c
  om
• Nihon Unisys Ltd, K. Sakaguchi Kiyoshi.Sakaguchi_at_u
  nisys.co.jp
• Alcatel, Laurent Rioux, Laurent.Rioux_at_alcatel.fr
• Q-Labs, Annie Kunzmann-Combelles, akc_at_objectif.fr
  
• with support from Valtech (Craig Larman),
  Siemens (Christian Ammon), Toshiba (Mari Natori),
  CA (Alan Birchenough)

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Outline

• Context
• The road traveled since the Oslo meeting
• Overview of the Software Process Engineering
  Metamodel (SPEM)
• The road ahead
• Motion

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Context

• Software Process Engineering Management
• RFP Document ad/99-11-04
• Features of the RFP
• Interoperability and repository for Software
  Process Engineering
• Interchange of software process chunks
• Modeling processes (not describing one specific
  process)
• Metamodel or UML Profile

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Approach

• Starting point existing models of three family
  of processes
• IBM Global Services method metamodel
• Rational Unified Process metamodel
• DMR Macroscope and Fujitsus SDEM
• Unisys QuadCycle
• SOFTEAMs usage of profile for software
  engineering
• Add ideas from other published processes (e.g.,
  OPEN) and process modeling approaches (e.g.,
  IDEF0)
• Combine all these into one single model, in UML
• Validate the ideas using three process families
  plus tools Rational Process Workbench, SOFTEAM
  Objecteering

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The Road Traveled Since Oslo, June 17th

• In June 2000 we had
• 2 submissions
• Not a UML profile
• Since then we worked towards
• A single submission
• Making the proposal a UML profile

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Summary of changes

• Renaming UPM ? SPEM
• Terminology
• Artifact ? Workproduct
• Role ? ProcessRole
• UML Profile
• All elements of the model are stereotypes of UML
  Metamodel model elements
• Metamodel is greatly simplified
• ProcessDefinitionElement ? ModelElement

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The Conceptual Model
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Use of UML Metamodel in SPEM
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The four packages of the virtual metamodel
Basic Elements
ProcessStructure
ProcessComponents
ProcessLifecycle
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Process Structure Package
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Basic Elements Package
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Process Components Package
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Process Lifecycle Package
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The Road Ahead

• Refine the mapping to UML Metamodel
• More validation
• Explain the mapping in the submission
• Create a SPEM-specific DTD based on a MOF-based
  metamodel
• Notation
• More examples
• Evaluation to start early February, to end
  mid-March
• Complete draft will be available at the February
  26th meeting
• Defer final submission to March 31st (??)

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Motion

• Defer the final submission date until 3 weeks
  prior to the Paris meeting (April 23rd?)

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That's all for now, Folks!