Mapping IT Governance to Software Development Process: From COBIT 5 to GI-Tropos

Nguyen Huynh Anh, Vu [UCL] Kolp, Manuel [UCL] Wautelet, Yves [KU Leuven] Heng, Samedi [UCL]

Mapping IT Governance principles from frameworks like COBIT 5 to Requirements-Driven Software Processes such as (GI-) Tropos or even RUP-based ones allows IT managers to propose governance and management rules for software development to cope with stakeholders’ requirements. On the one hand, IT Governance in software engineering has to ensure that software organization business processes meet strategic requirements of the organization. On the other hand, requirements-driven software methods are development processes using high-level social-oriented models to drive the software life cycle both in terms of project management and deductive iterative engineering techniques. Typically, such methods are well-suited for the inclusion and adaptation of governance principles immediately into the software development life cycle. To consolidate both perspectives, this paper proposes a generic framework allowing mapping IT governance principles to the GI-Tropos software processes.