Tape Mbo'e (TME): A Service-Oriented Method

In many developing countries, legacy systems of government are normally isolate affecting the quality of services provided to citizens. This situation affects the data trustfulness, and transparency. For this reason, various governments have been striving interoperate their legacy systems using service oriented paradigm. To achieve this ambitious goal many aspects have to be considered such as the economy conditions that have an influence on the decision of adopting software development method. The method has to produce fast deliveries, maintains the costs low, and considers from the beginning aspects related to long-term sustainability of the IT solutions. Trying to comply with such requirements, Tape Mbo'e Process (TME) has been proposed. TME focuses on building, and maintaining sustainable services-based applications. TME has been used in five case studies, which embraced both academia and public organizations in Paraguay. It is important to remark that it was the first application of this type of evaluation in the public sector in Paraguay. The initial results of the different case studies indicate the feasibility and simplicity of TME when it is applied in this context.