Objective
Increasing pressures on IT Services within a Local Authority to achieve quality, performance and value for money gains, in order to contribute to corporate and service aims. Project aim is to evaluate CASE tools and associated methods to bring about:-
Improved software quality in terms of meeting customers requirements in product functionality
Improved performance and productivity of software engineers
Greater team working and improvement in relationships between developers and customers
Reduced cost of ownership of systems through improved systems engineering and design
Create a culture which is receptive to technological transfer and innovations as part of implementation strategy.
THE EXPERIMENT
The experiment will use a housing base-line project in order to evaluate the benefits, issues and impacts of Computer Aided Systems Engineering (CASE) Tools and methods in Information Systems (I.S.) design and development. Qualitative and quantitative improvements are expected in managerial and technical respects. Additionally, the experiment will provide the opportunity to examine and better understand organisational and human issues in technology transfer and implementation and so improve future working practices.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
To help bring about tangible improvements in I.S. quality and value for money in future I.S. design and development by producing applications using CASE technology which is expected to deliver:
Improved software quality by more closely meeting user requirements, through better team working between customer and developers.
Improved productivity of developers.
Lower system ownership costs through improved systems engineering.
Additionally, a more thorough understanding of human and organisational dynamics in technology transfer is expected to provide important experience in order to formulate:
Effective implementation strategies for CASE technology within the service.
Establish a stronger culture of continuous software engineering improvements and innovation.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
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Coordinator
M27 5DA Manchester
United Kingdom
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