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Improving Requirements Analysis through Business Process Modelling: A Participative Approach

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 7))

Abstract

Although requirements analysis is acknowledged as a critical success factor of information system development for organizations, mistakes are frequent at the requirements stage. Two of these mistakes are the lack of understanding of the business by requirements engineers and the miscommunication between business people and systems analysts. As a result of these problems, information systems may not fulfill organizational needs. To prevent these problems, this paper describes an approach based on business process modeling. The business environment is modeled in the form of BPMN diagrams. The diagrams are validated by end-users and are then analyzed by systems analysts in order to reach an agreement on the effect that the information system will have on the organization. Finally, requirements are specified by means of the description of the business process tasks to be supported by the information system.

This work has been developed with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain under the project SESAMO TIN2007-62894 and the program FPU, and cofinanced by FEDER.

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    Jose Luis de la Vara & Juan Sánchez

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de la Vara, J.L., Sánchez, J. (2008). Improving Requirements Analysis through Business Process Modelling: A Participative Approach. In: Abramowicz, W., Fensel, D. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79396-0_15

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