Value Based Requirements Creation for Electronic Commerce Applications

  • Authors:
  • Jaap Gordijn;Hans Akkermans; Hans Van Vliet

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 6 - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Electronic commerce applications have special features Compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet non-existing business activities, requirements for e commerce applications have to be created from scratch rather than elicited. Second, design decisions about e-business models and the associated information systems architecture cannot be sequentially made in a decoupled way, because business and technology considerations are strongly linked. On these counts, current methodology for requirements engineering is inadequate for electronic commerce applications. We outline a structured approach to e-commerce requirements creation. This e3-VALUE approach enables one to clarify business model decisions to be made by management, by modeling the end-to-end value activities and exchanges in the e-commerce stakeholder network. In addition, this value network model enables system developers to derive high-level requirements concerning the software architecture.