Engenharia de software alinhada à estratégia empresarial

Abstract

Companies have increasingly sought quality software that are crucial in the fight for market. This software must be precise, agile and have a good cost-benefit analysis. To achieve these characteristics, processes and methodologies of software engineering are required, but is still not enough. The software should be focusing on the business, always with the goal of guiding the processes of decision making. So, the areas of Information Technology and Business need to be aligned. The Information Technology projects need to consider the company's business strategy. This work reports the need for greater involvement of the software engineer with the Business Area and at what stage of the project developed the strategic alignment should be observed. Strategic alignment practices from some models of existing software engineering are described. At the end are presented concepts, models and tools to assist the software engineer in the pursuit of strategic alignment.