Author:
Lucas Rodrigues Conceição
Affiliation:
ICPD – Instituto CEUB de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento, UniCEUB, SEPN 707/907, Brasília and Brazil
Keyword(s):
Balanced Scorecard, Goal Modelling, Requirements Engineering, Strategy, Software, KPI, Business Value.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Information Systems Analysis and Specification
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Requirements Analysis And Management
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Software Metrics and Measurement
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Strategic Decision Support Systems
Abstract:
Companies are increasingly dependent on tailor-made software to achieve their organizational goals. Much is already known about how to specify a software from an idea or concept, however, predicting the impact of building it on a company's results is still something little studied, and often the impact is measured only after its construction, resulting sometimes in a misuse of resources, compared to the result obtained. This paper presents a way of relating and measuring the impact of software requirements on strategic KPI’s, in order to extract quantitative and qualitative analyses of these relationships, providing relevant information in the decision making process regarding prioritization against business value. Through a case study, it is shown how to use Goal Modelling techniques to extract and relate requirements from the KPI's of a Balanced Scorecard. It is possible to extract, from the described techniques, qualitative and quantitative results that show the impact of each of
the requirements on the mapped KPI’s.
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