Identifying key characteristics of business rules that affect software project success

Vavpotič, Damjan (author), Kalibatiene, Diana (author), Vasilecas, Olegas (author), Hovelja, Tomaž (author)

Today, businesses need to continuously adjust to a dynamic environment. Enterprises have to deal with global competition and technological advances, meet government regulations, and keep their expenses under control. Under these pressures, enterprises need to implement and improve software that supports and helps to evolve their business. However, as practice shows, software implementation projects are complex, and a considerable percentage of them do not meet business requirements. Therefore, a business needs to manage software implementation properly. Existing research shows that using business rules (BR) in software implementation projects helps to ensure its success. The purpose of our study is to advance the understanding of how BR affect software implementation success, namely, which key characteristics of BR are the most important. To achieve this goal, the top thousand enterprises in Slovenia, by added value, facing typical software implementation projects were surveyed. The obtained results show that BR that are specifically prepared for a particular project and easy to understand have a statistically significant positive effect on software implementation project success.

• Language: English
• Keywords: business rule, software implementation project, software development, project success, business rule characteristic
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FRI - Faculty of Computer and Information Science
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 10 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 12, iss. 2, art. 762
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-137129
• UDC: 659.2:004
• ISSN on article: 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app12020762
• COBISS.SI-ID: 93371395
• Publication date in RUL: 01.06.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Applied sciences
• Shortened title: Appl. sci.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2076-3417
• COBISS.SI-ID: 522979353

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 12.01.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: poslovno pravilo, implementacija programske opreme, razvoj programske opreme, uspeh projekta, značilnosti poslovnih pravil

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0359
• Name: Vseprisotno računalništvo