1. Peter Olow Knowit TM peter.olow@knowit.se
On the Integration of System Anatomy, System Architecture and Project Management
Peter Olow
Knowit TM
Lars Taxén
Linköping University

2. If failure teaches more than success … then the IT profession must be developing an army of brilliant project managers
(Nelson, 2007)

3. Project management research should not consist of merely creating new frameworks and proffering new theoretical models of project management.
It should also target the ways in which this new knowledge can clarify and enrich the professional practice of actors involved in project conduct
(Lalonde et al., 2010)

4. Handling Complexity - the Cynefin topology
SW more and more
Complex domain

5. The telecom network
Complex projects
Our practical experiences

6. Integration Driven Development
An example of IDD
Dependencies between capabilities
Many projects over the years
Architectural aspects downplayed

7. Research question
“How can the system architecture view be included in Integration Driven Development, and what effects can be expected from integrating the planning, anatomy and architectural views?”

8. Project conceptualization

9. Planning view
Focus on the delivery of the system on time and within budget

10. Anatomy view
Anatomy view Focus on system functionality

11. Architecture view
Architecture view Focus on non-functional requirements and other constraints

12. The integrated view

13. Show how the different views can be seen

14. Contributions Planning view Anatomy view Architecture view
Focus on the delivery of the system on time and within budget
Anatomy view
Focus on system functionality
Architecture view
Focus on non-functional requirements and other constraints

15. An exemplar project
Latent capabilities that every healthy human is endowed with at birth

16. The Activity Domain An exemplar project
- objectivation
- contextualization
- stabilization
- spatialization
- temporalization
- transition
Coordinative universals -
Activity Modalities
Focus on a target, motivated by a need
Frame a context of relevance
Adhere to norms
Orient oneself in space
Conceive of actions leading to the goal
Change context
Latent capabilities that every healthy human is endowed with at birth

17. Activity Domain Theory
Practice origin (Ericsson)
Innate predispositions for coordinating actions
Refined over many years
Rigor – relevance
Particular – general
No time to talk about this … read about it in our paper
Particular – general (Smyth & Morris, 2007)
General explanatory patterns marginalizes the particular
Particular focus aggravates the emergence of common patterns

18. The Activity Domain Theory
Integrated view basis for detailed planning in the other views

19. Coherence Weakness of each view are counterbalanced
An accessible shared view
Multi-view arena prevents unjustified detailing

20. Planning and estimation
Balancing feature, component delivery, and capability
Multi-disciplinary starting point for estimations
Project risks can be identified in all views
feature delivery
component development
resource planning

21. Just do it!