2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Understandability of Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Concepts for Enterprise Architects
Authors : Wilco Engelsman, Roel Wieringa
Published in: Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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ArchiMate is a graphical language for modelling business goals and enterprise architecture. In previous work we identified possible understandability issues with the goal-oriented notations in ArchiMate. [
Problem
] We investigated how understandable the goal-oriented concepts really were in two quasi-experiments with practitioners. [
Principal ideas/results
] Only three concepts were understood by most or all subjects; the stakeholder concept, the goal concept and the requirement concept. The other concepts were misunderstood by most of our subjects. We offer explanations for these (mis)understandings. [
Contribution
] This paper provides new insights into the understandability and hence usability of goal-oriented concepts by practicing enterprise architects.