Various proposals have been made to extend object-oriented languages and database systems with roles because they allow to weaken strict typing concepts and therefore can provide mechanisms for an object to change its type during its lifetime. But this so-called object migration is not the only advantage ooered by a suitable role model. This paper studies the possibilities to use roles for a ge...

Configuration management, the traditional CM, has been subsumed by a new CM, change management. The strategic organization looks ahead and this includes planning for change. This is an area of particular interest to software product line organizations. A product line organization must manage multiple options and control implementations of those options. In this issue of Strategic Software Engin...

The organization is a systems integrator of an air defense missile system. More than 120 systems and software engineers are involved in the system’s development and maintenance. The organization had been ISO 9001 certified since 1993. In 1997 the organization had been certified as CMM® [1] Level 2 by independent assessors certified by the Software Engineering Institute. In addition to satisfyin...

The Introduction of anything related to systems architecting, such as methods or techniques, systems thinking, or role and task requires a change management strategy. We will discuss how to introduce these changes into an organization. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaudí project. The Gaudí project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Fre...

In fact, Stella felt some resentment towards the challenge itself. It was not that she did not 'do creative’; it was more about her fear of unknown, the fear of losing the safety of routine the fear of change. She had read a few articles about resistance to change before and was able to recognise the tell-tale symptoms of resistance not to change per se, but rather to the uncertainties and pote...

Bringing forward the concepts of globalization and cultural management is no longer surprising nowadays. The organizations’ concern for performance led frequently to adopting some strategic options that go beyond the national space of origin and rely, to a greater extent, on the globalization phenomenon of production, market and capital. The success, under these circumstances, is conditioned, t...