Environment evolution: the Prism model of changes Export

@article{citeulike:1082406, abstract = {A software development environment supports a complex network of items of at least the following major types: people, policies, laws, resources, processes and results. Such items may need to be changed on an on-going basis. The authors have designed in the Prism project a model of changes and two supporting change-related environment infrastructures with the following key features: separation of changes to the described items from the changes to the environmental facilities encapsulating these items; a facility, called the dependency structure, for describing various items and their interdependencies, and for identifying the items affected by a given change; a facility, called the change structure for classifying, recording, and analyzing change-related data and for making qualitative judgments of the consequences of a change; identification of the many distinct properties of a change; and a built-in mechanism for providing feedback. The author's approach to the problem of change and its rationale is described}, author = {Madhavji, N. H.}, citeulike-article-id = {1082406}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=135771}, journal = {Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {change, management}, number = {5}, pages = {380--392}, posted-at = {2007-02-01 19:18:32}, priority = {0}, title = {Environment evolution: the Prism model of changes}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=135771}, volume = {18}, year = {1992} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1082406 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1082406 N2 - A software development environment supports a complex network of items of at least the following major types: people, policies, laws, resources, processes and results. Such items may need to be changed on an on-going basis. The authors have designed in the Prism project a model of changes and two supporting change-related environment infrastructures with the following key features: separation of changes to the described items from the changes to the environmental facilities encapsulating these items; a facility, called the dependency structure, for describing various items and their interdependencies, and for identifying the items affected by a given change; a facility, called the change structure for classifying, recording, and analyzing change-related data and for making qualitative judgments of the consequences of a change; identification of the many distinct properties of a change; and a built-in mechanism for providing feedback. The author's approach to the problem of change and its rationale is described IS - 5 JF - Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on EP - 392 TI - Environment evolution: the Prism model of changes VL - 18 SP - 380 KW - change KW - management AU - Madhavji, NH PY - 1992/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=135771 ER -