Specifying a role-based guide for learning to work with an enterprise framework

Learning to work with enterprise frameworks requires considerable effort, because of the inherent complexity of all the knowledge that is needed. However, different roles in project teams need to learn different knowledge components according to the different tasks to perform. A role based guide that has been developed for new developers in the California projects at the software house IBS Consist is presented. The California projects develop financial applications based on the IBM SanFrancisco enterprise framework. The requirement for this guide originates in the need to guide (new) project members in learning the required skills for being able to work productively after focused training for the California projects. Starting point for this guide is the IBS development process. The individual tasks during the different phases in the process are specified by means of UML use case diagrams. An important property is that the guide is role-based to allow new project members focusing on th...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: SPE
• Authors: Wilhelm Hasselbring, Ralph van den Houdt
• Keywords: Enterprise Framework, Guide, Projects, SPE 2002