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SPEM

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Introduction

According to the Object Management Group (OMG) Software & Systems Process Engineering Meta-Model Specification (Version 2.0, April 01 2008):

  • The Software and Systems Process Engineering Meta-model (SPEM) is a process engineering meta-model as well as conceptual framework, which can provide the necessary concepts for modeling, documenting, presenting, managing, interchanging, and enacting development methods and processes. An implementation of this meta-model would be targeted at process engineers, project leads, project and program managers who are responsible for maintaining and implementing processes for their development organizations or individual projects.

In 1999, the OMG placed a Request for Proposal concerning Software Process Engineering (SPE). In November 2002, the OMG released the Software Process Engineering Meta-model Specification 1.0. SPEM was defined as a Profile of UML, which used UML as a notation and took an object-oriented approach. To accommodate UML 2, the SPEM specification was upgraded to 2.0 in April 2008.

http://www.omg.org/spec/SPEM/2.0/PDF (Online Resource)

SPEM in Enterprise Architect

SPEM 2.0 focuses on providing the additional information structures that you require for processes modeled with UML 2 Activities or BPMN/BPDM, to describe an actual development process.

Enterprise Architect enables you to develop SPEM diagrams quickly and simply, through use of an MDG Technology integrated with the Enterprise Architect installer. The SPEM facilities are provided in the form of:

  • A SPEM diagram type, accessed through the New Diagram dialog
  • A set of SPEM pages in the Toolbox, providing SPEM elements (stereotyped UML elements)
  • SPEM element and relationship entries in the Toolbox Shortcut Menu and Quick Linker

Add New Diagram

SPEM Toolbox

Toolbox Shortcut Menu

Quick Linker

Disable SPEM

If you prefer not to use SPEM in Enterprise Architect, you can disable it (and subsequently re-enable it) using the MDG Technologies dialog (Settings | MDG Technologies).

MDG Technologies