Extending enterprise architecture modelling with business goals and requirements

  • Authors:
  • Wilco Engelsman;Dick Quartel;Henk Jonkers;Marten van Sinderen

  • Affiliations:
  • BiZZdesign, Enschede, The Netherlands,Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, AE 7500, The Netherlands;Novay, Enschede, The Netherlands;BiZZdesign, Enschede, The Netherlands;Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, AE 7500, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Enterprise Information Systems - Empowering Enterprises Through Next-Generation Enterprise Computing - 13th International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2009)
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The methods for enterprise architecture (EA), such as The Open Group Architecture Framework, acknowledge the importance of requirements modelling in the development of EAs. Modelling support is needed to specify, document, communicate and reason about goals and requirements. The current modelling techniques for EA focus on the products, services, processes and applications of an enterprise. In addition, techniques may be provided to describe structured requirements lists and use cases. Little support is available however for modelling the underlying motivation of EAs in terms of stakeholder concerns and the high-level goals that address these concerns. This article describes a language that supports the modelling of this motivation. The definition of the language is based on existing work on high-level goal and requirements modelling and is aligned with an existing standard for enterprise modelling: the ArchiMate language. Furthermore, the article illustrates how EA can benefit from analysis techniques from the requirements engineering domain.