System, method, and computer program for documentation, communication, planning and control of software applications that support business needs

摘要

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for control of a software project that supports business needs. In operation, a multi-layer architecture for the software project is defined based on software elements associated with the software project. Additionally, associations between each business requirement of a plurality of business requirements and the software elements that cover each of the business requirements are stored. Deletion of one or more of the software elements is prevented based on the inter-dependencies of the one or more of the software elements and based on one or more of the business requirements associated with the one or more of the software elements.