Goal Sketching and the Business Case

The synergies between goal sketching and enterprise architecture

“…A behavioral goal in Goal Sketching is equivalent to the IEEE concepts of Capability and Condition [17] which in turn correspond to requirements in the ArchiMate language: "a requirement is defined as a statement of need that must be realized by a system… requirements represent the "means" to realize goals" [11]. A constraint is a restriction on the way in which a system is operationalized [11], [1] and [16].…”

“…Goal-oriented requirements engineering has been much researched since its inception [13], [14] and forms the basis for our work [2], [3], [12], [15]. We contend that whilst extremely useful goal-oriented requirements engineering has not yet been widely adopted in industry, possibly because of its formality.…”

“…Requirements analysis and modeling can be used to help establish such scope, but formal analysis and modeling are often beyond the resources and budgetary constraints of managers working in the real word. As an alternative to such formal analysis we developed an approach called Goal Sketching [1] and used this as a basis for requirements confidence appraisal and scope management [2], [3]. One of the inspirations behind goal sketching is the KAOS goal-directed language and method [4].…”

“…In order to find the synergies between Goal Sketching and the ArchiMate language we use semantic entailment when modeling aggregation and composition. We also introduce 1 ArchiMate ® is a registered trademark of The Open Group.…”