This presentation was given by Professor June Sung Park in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Chairman of SEMAT Executive Committee, in the Essence Information Day held in OMG Technical Meeting in Berlin, Germany on June 20, 2013. The presentation illustrates how one can standardize and integrate a variety of software engineering methods used in an enterprise by expressing all practices and methods in terms of the Essence kernel.

2. Methods in Enterprises
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Software Lifecycle
Software Layer
Requirement Architecture Development Operation
Business
Model
Application
UI
Logic
Data
Platform and
Infrastructure
Management
BPM
BA
UX
SOA
EIM
MDD / TDD / XP
EA
PMBOK / CMMI-DEV ITIL
Scrum / Kanban
Business/ITStrategy

3. Business-IT Alignment
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Business
Process
Business
Environment
IT
Technology
IT System
Application
Data
Infrastructure
IT
Strategy
Business
Strategy
EABusiness Strategy
Planning Method
Business Process
Management Method
IT Strategy
Planning Method
Business
Analysis
Method
Software
Engineering
Method
Enterprise
Architecture Method
Software Project

4. Enterprise Method
Architecture
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Understand all methods used in an
enterprise
Analyze their relationships
Minimize, standardize, integrate and share
the set of methods
Enterprise Method Architecture
Method
Is a federation of

5. Example: US DoD
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Do methods produce
consistent models across
different views (e.g. across
process, information, use case)?
Do methods produce
models traceable across
different abstraction

6. Example: DoDAF Meta Model
(DM2)
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 Define concepts and models usable in DoD’s 6 core processes:
– Capabilities Integration and Development (JCIDS)
– Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE)
– Acquisition System (DAS)
– Systems Engineering (SE)
– Operations Planning
– Capabilities Portfolio Management (CPM)
 Establish guidance for architecture content as a function of purpose
 Make DM2 so the architectures can be integrated, analyzed, and
evaluated to mathematical precision
 Establish and define the constrained vocabulary for description and
discourse about DoDAF models and their usage in the 6 core processes
 Specify the semantics and format for federated EA data exchange
between architecture development and analysis tools and architecture
databases
 Support discovery and understandability of EA data:
– Discovery of EA data using DM2 categories of information
– Understandability of EA data using DM2’s precise semantics

7. Methods Integration
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Software Lifecycle
Software Layer
Requirement Architecture Development Operation
Business
Model
Application
UI
Logic
Data
Platform and
Infrastructure
Management
BPM
BA
UX
SOA
EIM
MDD / TDD / XP
EA
PMBOK / CMMI-DEV ITIL
Scrum / Kanban
Horizontal Integration:
Minimal & Traceable
VerticalIntegration:
Disjoint&Consistent

8. Essence Approach to EMA
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Practice
Is composed of
Kernel
Is described using
Enterprise Method Architecture
Method
Is a federation of
Comparable
M. E. C. E.
Standard Vocabulary,
Semantics and Format

9. Essence Approach to EMA
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Essence Kernel
(IFaP)
New emerging best practices
New demands for methods
(e.g., cloud migration, big data analytics, enterprise mobility)
Hour Glass Model of Middle Out Architecture

10. Advantage of Essence
Approach
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Kernel-Based
Practices
Diverse,
Yet Coherent
Practices
Integration
into Method
Minimal,
Yet Sufficient
Methods
Integration
across
Enterprise
M. E. C. E
Agile
Transitions of
Enterprise
Method
Architecture
Adaptive &
Innovative

11. Example EMA
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EA
Business Architecture
App Architecture
Data Architecture
Technical Architecture
EA Management
Project Portfolio Mgmt
BPM
BPMN Modeling
BPEL4SWS Implementation
Process Performance Mgmt
BPR Project Management
SOA
Service Identification
Service Specification
Service Realization
Service Governance
Method

12. Method
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BPM
BPMN Modeling
BPEL4SWS Implementation
Process Performance Mgmt
BPR Project Management
Method
Practice
Practice
Practice
Practice

13. BPMN Modeling
Practice Template
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Opportunity
Stakeholder
Requirements
Software System
Work
Team
Way of Working
Practice
Kernel
Alphas
Explore Possibilities
Understand
Stakeholder Needs
Understand the
Requirements
Shape the System
Prepare to Do the Work
Coordinate Activities
Track Progress
Kernel
Activity
Spaces

14. BPMN Modeling
Practice Instantiation
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Opportunity
Stakeholder
Requirements
Software System
Work
Team
Way of Working
Process Goals aligned with Business Strategy
Process Owner and Actors
Process KPIs
BPMN 2.0 Models
executable on the Process Engine
As-Is Process Analysis,
To-Be Process Design and Simulation
Cross-Functional Team with
Process Actors and Process Engineers
Process Modeling Heuristics, Patterns and Tool
Alphas
Work
Products

15. BPMN Modeling
Practice Instantiation
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Conduct Benchmarking of Global Best Practices
Analyze Business Strategies and
Process Capabilities to Improve
Analyze the Current Process and
Set Improvement Goals and KPIs
Design and Simulate the To-Be Process and Develop the
Implementation Plan
Justify ROI of the Process Modeling Project,
Organize and Train the Team
Develop the Process Modeling Project Plan
Track the Process Modeling Project
Explore Possibilities
Understand
Stakeholder Needs
Understand the
Requirements
Shape the System
Prepare to Do the Work
Coordinate Activities
Track Progress
Activity
Spaces
Activities

16. BPMN Modeling
Practice Instantiation
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Analyze Business Strategies and
Process Capabilities to Improve
Analyze the Current Process and
Set Improvement Goals and KPIs
Design and Simulate the To-Be Process and
Develop the Implementation Plan
Justify ROI of the Process Modeling Project,
Organize and Train the Team
Develop the Process Modeling Project Plan
Track the Process Modeling Project
Conduct Benchmarking of Global Best
Practices
Activities
Process KPIsRequirements
Conceived
Bounded
Coherent
Acceptable
Alpha
States
Process Analysis,
Design, Simulation
Work
Initiated
Prepared
Started
Under Control
Concluded
Closed

17. Method Composition
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Practice
Competency

18. Institutionalization of EMA
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Enterprise Method
Architecture
Practice
Kernel
Method
Corporate
Business Process
Workforce
Competency
Training Program
Organization &
Job/Role Design
Reusable
SW Asset
(e.g. Patterns)

19. Management of Essence-Based Project
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Project
Alpha
State
Activity
Workflow
consistsof
goes through
describes
produces
is in
Requirement
Work
Software System
Team
is a
Activityis handled by
Alpha State
Transition
Task Board
shows
Dashboard
Work
Product
Iteration
has
Way of Working
Alpha
causes
Checklist
is confirmed bychanges
realizestracks

20. Case Study
BPMN Modeling
Analyze Business Strategies and
Process Capabilities to Improve
Analyze the Current Process and
Set Improvement Goals and KPIs
Design and Simulate the To-Be Process and
Develop the Implementation Plan
Conduct Benchmarking of Global Best
Practices Process KPIsRequirements
Conceived
Bounded
Coherent
Acceptable
Design
Business
Process

21. Case Study
BPMN Modeling
Analyze Business Strategies and
Process Capabilities to Improve
Analyze the Current Process and
Set Improvement Goals and KPIs
Design and Simulate the To-Be Process
and Develop the Implementation Plan
Conduct Benchmarking of Global Best
Practices ProcessKPIsRequirements
Conceived
Bounded
Coherent
Acceptable
Design
Business
Process
Checklist
Process goals are
determined.
As-Is process is described.
Process problems are
identified.
Root causes of the
problems are identified.
Process KPIs are defined.
Target KPIs are set.

22. Case Study
Analyze the Current Process and
Set Improvement Goals and KPIs
ProcessKPIsRequirements
Coherent
Checklist
Process goals are
determined.
As-Is process is described.
Process problems are
identified.
Root causes of the
problems are identified.
Process KPIs are defined.
Target KPIs are set.

23. Case Study
BPMN Modeling
Analyze Business Strategies and
Process Capabilities to Improve
Analyze the Current Process and
Set Improvement Goals and KPIs
Design and Simulate the To-Be Process
and Develop the Implementation Plan
Conduct Benchmarking of Global Best
Practices ProcessKPIsRequirements
Conceived
Bounded
Coherent
Acceptable
Design
Business
Process
Checklist
Global best practices are
analyzed.
Industry reference models
are analyzed.
Applicable BPR patterns are
selected.
To-Be process is designed.
Information requirements
are defined.
Business rules are
specified.
Process simulation attains
target KPIs.
Organization and jobs are
designed.

24. Case Study
Design and Simulate the To-Be Process
and Develop the Implementation Plan
ProcessKPIsRequirements
Acceptable
Checklist
Global best practices are
analyzed.
Industry reference models
are analyzed.
Applicable BPR patterns are
selected.
To-Be process is designed.
Information requirements
are defined.
Business rules are
specified.
Process simulation attains
target KPIs.
Organization and jobs are
designed.

25. Conclusion
We need to build a library of practices using the
common kernel,
not just for software engineering, but also for
other disciplines essential for business-IT
alignment
We need to develop an easy-to-use tool to
compose practices into a method, and a
marketplace where global best practices can be
traded.
We need to produce success cases of developing
and managing Enterprise Method Architectures
based on Essence.
We need to extend the kernel to accommodate
ever expanding use cases and technologies of
software.
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26. Thank YOU!
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