Using The Morphological Analysis Perspective (MAP) In Software Engineering Project Management

Abstract

Corporations require well defined strategies and successful implementation of strategic solutions in order to survive, facilitate growth, and remain competitive. In the current internet enabled economy, software development plays an increasing role in the implementation of corporate strategic solutions. The development of software product solutions aligned to corporate strategy help facilitate business success. The focus of this thesis is to present the Morphological Analysis Perspective (MAP) as an effective methodology that provides a link between corporate strategic planning processes that identify strategic problems and software engineering project processes used to implement solutions to corporate problems. The MAP enables the visualization of the total problem set, facilitates the reduction of a large total problem set to a smaller manageable solution set, and provides traceability between high-level strategic goals and software engineering project requirements.