Level of Detail and Understandability of Enterprise Models - Better Understandability through Higher Complexity?

摘要

Enterprise Models are an important tool for IT-Governance. Diverse stakeholders are working with such models. This work presents a contribution to the study of model understandability. The model comprehension of individuals having basic knowledge of business administration and computer science has been measured in an experiment. The level of detail (high/low) has been chosen for the independent variable of the experiment. The study bases on a model that has been derived from the ArchiSurance case study of the OpenGroup. This model is part of the Archi tool1 published by Bolton University. The results show a higher model understandability at a higher level detail and thus higher model complexity.