BOMI View Types: A Design Science Research Study

Sammanfattning: Large-scale systems engineering companies often have many teams working in distinct ways, whether it be agile, waterfall, or a method falling somewhere in between. Challenges appear when one team’s way of working differs from those around them, leading the overall organization to struggle with inter-team coordination. BOMI (Boundary Objects and Methodological Islands) concepts have been identified as a potential solution to this problem. However, prior work has found that practitioners often struggle with the vast amount of information displayed within the resulting BOMI models. This design science research study has attempted to reduce the BOMI models’ complexity by implementing a collection of four specialized BOMI view types: the overview view type, methodological island (MI) view type, boundary object (BO) view type, and governance view type, each targeted towards a specific group of stakeholders and their concerns. This collection of BOMI view types has been evaluated as beneficial to practitioners, implying that there are potential advantages to implementing specialized BOMI views as expressed in previous work. However, this study merely examines the thoughts and opinions of a small group of practitioners and BOMI method designers. Therefore, future work should aim to expand on this topic further by investigating a larger population to verify and improve the presented artifact, possibly identifying additional stakeholders and implementing supplementary view types.