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The concept of concern is used in Enterprise Architecture (EA) to express a stakeholder’s area of interest in a system whose architecture is to be described. Many EA-related problems are rooted in weak stakeholder orientation. We propose an approach to explicitly model stakeholders’ concerns as part of an architecture description. Our contribution is a modeling notation for concern elicitation and a method for concern identification. Our approach is based on goal-oriented requirements engineering and is compatible to the conceptual framework of the ISO 42010 international standard. We claim that our approach allows for a more thorough understanding of stakeholders’ concerns and facilitates a stronger stakeholder orientation in EA.
We thank Dr. Tobias Lehmann from Inopus GmbH and our colleague Sascha Krell for helpful comments and the opportunity of collaboration on this project. We gratefully acknowledge the fruitful collaboration of our workshop participants as well as our project partners.
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Lucke, C., Lechner, U. (2011). Towards an Approach for Stakeholder-Oriented Elicitation and Identification of Concerns in EA. In: Johannesson, P., Krogstie, J., Opdahl, A.L. (eds) The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. PoEM 2011. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24849-8_12
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