1. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos escuela técnica superior de ingeniería informática Business Family Engineering Does it make sense ? Ildefonso Montero, Joaquín Peña and Antonio Ruiz-Cortés

2. The Path  Introduction  Process Family Engineering  Business Family Engineering  Conclusions

3. Introduction  Goal: Does it make sense ?  Problem: Companies need to adapt to market changes. It implies that IT infrastructure must evolve and support BPM  Our approach: Business Family Engineering SPL BPM One company: Process Family Engineering Multiple Companies

4. Introduction  Preliminaries: SPL in a nutshell

5. The Path  Introduction  Process Family Engineering  Business Family Engineering  Conclusions

6. Process Family Engineering  A first step: Process Family Engineering  Motivation:  Business must adapt to market changes: how do we manage these changes? SPL  Variant-rich processes & business as an evolving system  Goal: Does it make sense ?

7.  A motivating example of Process Family Engineering Process Family Engineering 1 fast-food restaurant company

8. Process Family Engineering  Variant-rich processes

9. Process Family Engineering  A business as an evolving system

10. The Path  Introduction  Process Family Engineering  Business Family Engineering  Conclusions

11.  A new step: Business Family Engineering  Motivation:  Variant-rich processes and businesses  A product line of businesses  Each business as an evolving system  Top abstraction level  Goal: Does it make sense ? Business Family Engineering

12.  A motivating example of Business Family Engineering Business Family Engineering N fast-food restaurant company

13.  What happens when … Business Family Engineering

14.  Situation:  Common processes in several businesses  Evolving businesses  Let´s reuse ! Business Family Engineering

17.  Result: A product line of evolving BDD systems

18. Conclusions and Future Work Business Family Engineering Does it make sense ?  Do you remember the title ?  Challenges:  Definition of the software process  Obtain a core process framework  Build BFE products  Product Evolution Model  Composition/addition of features based on processes, MDD, …

19. Thanks! Ildefonso Montero Pérez monteroperez@us.es Joaquín Peña joaquinp@us.es Antonio Ruiz-Cortés aruiz@us.es