ARIADNE-SE, is the Methodology of ARIADNE that supports primarily organizations
that develop information systems, under any type of systems development process
(parameterization, coding, COTS, etc) for internal or external (products and
services) purposes through structured or established information technology
units or departments.
In this case organizations develop their own technology because:
- Does not want to depend on each technology provider
- Does not want to disseminate the organizational internal technological
strategy, structure and operations.
- Considers that the acquisition of an information technology system
through a supplier creates a long lasting dependency of the organization upon
the supplier
- Wants to control all technological and technocratic investments
- Wants to be independent from other technology providers.
On the other hand such organizations might also support internal
technology development not only for the above reasons but primarily for the
ones that follow:
- There are many projects to be developed and it is better to be
developed internally
- There is a team in the organization that can carry on the
responsibilities of systems development
- A structured information technology department needs to exist not only
for the development of the technologies but also for their maintenance of the
ones that will interlay be developed as well as the once that will be acquired.
- Needs to secure the organizations know-how
- Needs not develop products and services
- There is no reason not to invest in the creation of an internal team
of systems development and maintenance when there are many and other
technological projects or a promising market.
The ARIADNE-SE Methodology helps an organization manage successfully all
the above issues under a very large number of project and organizational
constraints.
ARIADNE-SE, is composed out of the following twenty (20) phases for
managing the development process on
information technology projects.
- Product
Assessment
- Project
Development Structure
- Requirements
Management
- Systems
Analysis
- Systems
Design
- Systems
Prototyping
- Systems
Coding
- Systems
Parameterization
- H/W
Acceptance & Validation
- Systems
Testing
- Systems
Installation
- Systems
Documentation
- Training
- Systems
Acceptance / Delivery
- Post
Completion Analysis
- Systems
Migration
- Systems
Operation
- Systems
Re-usability
- Systems
Integration
- Systems
Maintenance.
There is no technical description of each phases of the ARIADNE-SE Methodology,
in this document, since this is a brief presentation of the entire
methodological concept of ARIADNE.
Technical documentation of each phase is available on other
publications.
The following figure presents the
conceptual structure of the ARIADNE-SE Methodology and the process of using the
methodology phases, based on dependencies, during the development of a project.
