Business process-driven requirements engineering : a goal-based approach

When developing an information system, software analysts must take the business environment into account so that the system properly fulfils the needs of the organization. Although requirements engineering is the bridge between enterprise and system domains, most of the research in this area is still solution-oriented, which does not address the real problems of the organization. As a consequence, since the enterprise is not correctly analyzed, the information system may not meet expectations, and business/IT alignment will not be achieved. To prevent these problems, we describe a business process-driven requirements engineering approach that allows software requirements to support the operations of an enterprise and assure business/IT alignment. This approach is based on the mapping of business process goals into system goals form which requirements are defined.

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