Introduction to Business Domains for Software Engineers

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. The domain knowledge evolves to project knowledge that drives software development.

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.

Manoj Kumar Lal, after his initial education from his native Karjapatti, Darbhanga, Bihar, went to BIT Sindri for graduation in Mechanical Engineering. He completed a 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.