Model-driven development (MDD) is a software development technique that uses visual models to describe a software application that meets business needs. MDD aims to improve cooperation between business and IT by allowing requirements to be defined through business-oriented models instead of code. This can potentially reduce costs and improve the alignment between what a business wants and what is delivered. When adopting MDD, companies should start with a small pilot project that is not too complex and choose the right team that includes someone experienced with MDD.

1. Model Driven Development Paul Jewell Managing Director The Stream Group

2. Consistent Challenge Aligning the business and IT We need our software to do this…. What we will deliver will do this… And now we need it to do this… Fill in a change request and we’ll look at it

3. Model-Driven Development A potential solution?

4. What does MDD cover? ANY DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE USING PICTURES TO DESCRIBE SOFTWARE MEETING A BUSINESS NEED FORMAL APPROACH Typically built iteratively

5. Example – loan application

6. Code-Free MDD Business requirements A set of definitions which define the behaviour of the software application

7. Why use it?

8. Built at a reduced cost Improved co-operation

9. Lower cost of ownership Get what you want

10. Getting started

11. Pick a pilot project Not too big Not too complex Not too much of a political hot potato

12. Set expectations MDD is iterative Build Test Analyse Review

13. Get the right team Someone with experience of MDD Small The right mind-set

14. What kind of projects? How do you find the right projects for MDD?

15. What size? Team size more important than project size

16. Examples of projects Self-service portals Reducing cost of non-strategic applications Extended services on top of ERP or CRM Data capture and reporting

17. Integration An issue for any project Not specific to MDD

18. Performance characteristics MDD-delivered projects can be: Robust Scalable Fast

19. Paul Jewell paul.jewell@thestreamgroup.com www.thestreamgroup.com Download our whitepaper on MDD