Recent Publications

De Boer, A., & De Vries, M. (2021). An enterprise-engineering based approach to develop enterprise capacity. In D. Aveiro, G. Guizzardi, R. Pergl, & H. A. Proper (Eds.), Advances in Enterprise Engineering XIV. EEWC 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (pp. 193-212). Cham: Springer.

De Vries, M., & Bork, D. (2021). Identifying scenarios to guide transformations from DEMO to BPMN. In D. Aveiro, G. Guizzardi, R. Pergl, & H. A. Proper (Eds.), Advances in Enterprise Engineering XIV. EEWC 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (pp. 92-110). Cham: Springer.

De Vries, M. (2020). Reducing ambiguity during enterprise design. Requirements Engineering, 25(2), 231-251. doi:10.1007/s00766-019-00320-1.

Christopher, L. A., & De Vries, M. (2020). Selecting a scaled agile approach for a Fin-Tech company. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 31(3), 196-208. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7166/31-3-2432. This work is based on the research supported wholly / in part by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant Number 115089).

Gray, T., & De Vries, M. (2020). Empirical evaluation of a new DEMO modelling tool that facilitates model transformations. In G. Grossmann & S. Ram (Eds.), Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 12584, pp. 189-199). Cham: Springer. This work is based on the research supported wholly / in part by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant Number 115089).

Gray, T., Bork, D., & De Vries, M. (2020). A new DEMO modelling tool that facilitates model transformations. In S. Nurcan, I. Reinhardt-Berger, P. Soffer, & J. Zdravkovic (Eds.), Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (Vol. LNBIP 387, pp. 359-374). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. This work is based on the research supported wholly / in part by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant Number 115089).

Ajayi, O., & De Vries, M. (2020). Diagnostic assessment of electricity service delivery at a local municipality. In T. Hattingh (Ed.), 31st Annual South African Institute for Industrial Engineering Conference (pp. 408-423). Virtual: SAIIE. This work is based on the research supported wholly / in part by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant Number 115089).

Djan, E., & De Vries, M. (2020). Business process re-engineering and agile software development: Applying the story-card method. In M. Hattingh, M. Matthee, H. Smuts, s. I. Pappa, Y. Dwivedi, & M. Mäntymäki (Eds.), Responsible Design, Implementation and Use of Information and Communication Technology. Cham: Springer.

De Boer, A. C., & De Vries, M. (2019). A framework to embed institutional capacity at an early childhood development centre. In C. S. L. Schutte (Ed.), SAIIEneXXXt Proceedings, 30th September – 2nd October 2019 (pp. 613-627). Port Elizabeth: SAIIE.

Ajayi, O., & De Vries, M. (2019). Diagnostic assessment of service delivery health in South Africa: A systematic literature review. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 30(1), 24-36.

De Vries, M. (2018). DEMO and the Story-Card Method: Requirements Elicitation for Agile Software Development at Scale. In R. Buchmann & M. Kirikova (Eds.), 11th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling: Springer.

Fourie, L., & De Vries, M. (2017). Exploring enhancements to the agile approach for mid-sized enterprises in the services sector. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 28(3), 22-39.

De Vries, M., Van der Merwe, A., & Gerber, A. 2017. Extending the enterprise evolution contextualisation model. Enterprise Information Systems, 11(6), 787-827. doi:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17517575.2015.1090629

De Vries, M., & Berger, S. (2017). An action design research approach within enterprise engineering. Systematic Practice and Action Research, 30(2), 187-207. doi:10.1007/s11213-016-9390-7

De Vries, M. (2017). Towards consistent demarcation of enterprise design domains. Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Advances in Conceptual Modeling, LNCS 10651, 91-100. 

De Vries, M., Van der Merwe, A., & Gerber, A. (2017). Extending the enterprise evolution contextualisation model. Enterprise Information Systems, 11(6), 787-827. doi:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17517575.2015.1090629.Van der Meulen, T., De Vries, M., & Gerber, A. (2017). Demonstrating Approach Design Principles during the Development of a DEMO-based Enterprise Engineering Approach. In S. Hammoudi, M. Smialek, O. Camp, & J. Filipe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2017) (Vol. 3, pp. 417-482).

De Vries, M., & Berger, S. (2017). An action design research approach within enterprise engineering. Systematic Practice and Action Research, 30(2), 187-207. doi:10.1007/s11213-016-9390-7.

De Vries, M. (2016). Guiding the development of enterprise design approaches. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 27(3), 12-22.  Retrieved from http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub

Van der Meulen, T., & De Vries, M. (2016). An enhanced systems engineering approach to increase design quality at an agricultural enterprise. In A. Sparrius (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth INCOSE SA Conference INCOSE.

Du Plessis, L., & De Vries, M. (2016). Towards a holistic customer experience management framework for enterprises. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 27(3), 23-36.  Retrieved from http://sajie.journals.ac.za/pub.

Lapalme, J., Gerber, A., Van der Merwe, A., De Vries, M., & Hinkelman, K. (2016). Exploring the future of enterprise architecture: A Zachman perspective. Computers in Industry, 27, 103-114.  Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01663615/.

De Vries, M., Gerber, A., & Van der Merwe, A. (2015). The enterprise engineering domain. In D. Aveiro, R. Pergl, & M. Valenta (Eds.), Advances in Enterprise Engineering IX (pp. 47-63). Switzerland: Springer.

De Vries, M., Gerber, A., & Van der Merwe, A. (2014). The nature of the Enterprise Engineering Discipline. In D. Aveiro, J. Tribolet, & D. Gouveia (Eds.), Advances in Enterprise Engineering VIII (Vol. 174, pp. 1-15). Switzerland: Springer.

De Vries, M., Gerber, A., & Van der Merwe, A. (2013). A framework for the identification of reusable processes. Enterprise Information Systems. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17517575.2013.805247 Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17517575.2013.805247.