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Figure 6. The category hierarchy appended with categories and codes from the use case analysis
check” concept identified only from “Order entry”
business process.
phase was estimated to last about two years with
more than 15 man-years of labor. The goal of the
project was to replace an old custom-made legacy
application with a more modular one.
The case project core team on the customer
side included a program manager, a chief architect
and a few persons with a mixed role of a require-
ment engineer and a sub-project manager. The
key persons of the case project were all experts
with sufficient knowledge of the business domain.
The core team was complemented with several
temporal advisors especially for security, technol-
ogy and legal issues.
The goal of the case study was to test how well
QSE would uncover the service candidates in a
real project and to compare the produced service
CASE STUDY
As a proof of the concept, a set of real world
business process descriptions and a set of busi-
ness use case descriptions from a large IT project
were analyzed using QSE.
The implementation of this case project was
outsourced to an external partner with a fixed price
contract and thus the completeness of the require-
ments was essential. The scope of the contract was
based on a requirements specification, use cases
and a solution architecture. The implementation
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