Peter Alexander, M. Eng.

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Peter Alexander
Former Research Assistant

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Business-centered Software Development

Software development is a major investment for any company. To maximize the return, the process of software development needs to be governed strategically. Such governance can be achieved only if IT and business decision-makers collaborate in harmony. The attempts to bridge the gap between IT and business have been referred to as business-IT alignment. In software development, the software architecture has been considered an effective means of communication between business and IT stakeholders. Therefore, recent approaches to software development have addressed business-IT alignment on this level by aligning software architecture to various business models, such as concept and process models. However, conceptual and process alignment concerns have always been addressed separately, for example domain-driven design and process-centric architecture approaches which strongly differ in this regard. While conceptual alignment focuses on the ontological conformance between software architecture and business models, process alignment focuses on functional granularity conformance. We strongly argue that the alignment of both aspects is necessary for the sustainability of software development. To address the aformentioned issues, this research project aims to develop an approach to business-IT alignment which incorporates business concept and process modeling techniques into software architecture activities.

Enterprise Architecture Debt

IT initiatives have constituted a major proportion of the overall strategic initiatives in today’s businesses. To fulfill the full potential of IT investments, bridging all gaps between business and IT is the first fundamental step. Such alignment has been the core focus of Enterprise Architecture, a discipline for establishing and maintaining strategic governance and management of IT decisions in complex and dynamic businesses.

Publications

Latest publications:

  • Ada Slupczynski, Peter Alexander, Horst Lichter (2024)
    Defining and Evaluating Prudence and Recklessness of Enterprise Architecture Debt. In Joaquim Filipe, Michal Smialek, Alexander Brodsky, Slimane Hammoudi (eds.) Enterprise Information Systems - 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, Prague, Czech Republic, Apr 24-26, Springer Nature Switzerland, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 519, ISBN 978-3-031-64754-3, 1-25.
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  • Ada Slupczynski, Peter Alexander, Horst Lichter (2023)
    A Process for Evaluating the Prudence of Enterprise Architecture Debts. In Joaquim Filipe, Michal Smialek, Alexander Brodsky, Slimane Hammoudi (eds.) Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, (ICEIS 2023), Volume 2, Prague, Czech Republic, Apr 24-26, SciTePress, 623--630.
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  • Ather Maqsood, Peter Alexander, Horst Lichter, Sansiri Tanachutiwat (2022)
    A Viewpoints-Based Analysis of Enterprise Architecture Debt. In Chua-Chin Wang, Arumugam Nallanathan (eds.) 5th International Conference on Signal Processing and Information Communications (ICSPIC 2022), Paris, France, Mar 14-16, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Signals and Communication Technology, 133--154.
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Summer semester 2022

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