Abstract
Strategic decision making is the process of selecting a logical and informed choice from the alternative options based on key strategic indicators determining the success of a specific organization strategy. To support this process and provide a common underlying language, in this work, we present an empirically-grounded ontology to support different strategic decision-making processes and extend the ontology to cover the context of managing quality in Rapid Software Development projects. We illustrate the complete ontology with an example.
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This work is a result of the Q-Rapids project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement N° 732253. We thank to Q-Rapids industrial partners for participating in our empirical studies to develop the presented ontologies.
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Gómez, C., Ayala, C., Franch, X., López, L., Behutiye, W., Martínez-Fernández, S. (2017). Towards an Ontology for Strategic Decision Making: The Case of Quality in Rapid Software Development Projects. In: de Cesare, S., Frank, U. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10651. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70625-2_11
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