Introduction to Business Domains for Software Engineers

ABOUT THE BOOK:
This book introduces a domain knowledge structure that can be used to learn multiple business domains. Using this structure, a fair understanding of insurance, banking, and automobile domains is developed via 150 products, 160 processes, and 570 business rules. Its usage has been demonstrated in many other domains as well. The business domain knowledge matures to enterprise knowledge and further to project knowledge that drives software development and maintenance.
The book addresses learning and digitising domain knowledge related challenges both in academia and in industry. The domain knowledge structure is hierarchical. Initial levels of the hierarchy can be used to embed domain knowledge in academia and the detailed levels can be used in the live project delivery environment within the IT industry. It scientifically addresses a significant known gap of the academia and improves the employability of the graduating students. It can also be applied to improve the contextual knowledge of a project team in the IT industry, as domain knowledge is an integral part of software development process. Appropriate adoption of this structure can also help create more number of Subject Matter Experts (SME) available to an organisation which is a key limitation today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Manoj Kumar Lal, after his initial education from home town Darbhanga, Bihar, went to BIT Sindri for graduation in Mechanical Engineering. He completed his post-graduation in Aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1997. He joined Tata Consultancy Services in 1997 and has spent close to twenty four years in the organisation. He has worked extensively in the field of IT project delivery with specialisation in business analysis and quality assurance. His area of interest is software engineering and digitization of knowledge. He has written a book titled ‘Knowledge Driven Development – Bridging Waterfall and Agile Methodologies’ published jointly by IISc and Cambridge University Press in June 2018. He is active on LinkedIn and would be happy to get connected.