An IT-Driven Business Requirements Engineering Methodology

Abstract

We propose a business requirements engineering methodology in order to rapidly generate a business requirements and its supporting business architecture centered around the IT (Information Technology). As a high-level representation of business requirements along with the business value chain, we propose XBMC, an extension of BMC (Business Model Canvas) of the Business Model Generation. To align the business requirements onto an enterprise information system, we propose a new framework of the SMC (System Model Canvas) and a bidirectional mapping between XBMC and SMC governed by a business meta-model. Based on the mapping, we propose a technique of incrementally aligning business requirements represented in XBMC to and from ITA (IT Architecture) in SMC, which is intended to effectively utilize IT capabilities and resources. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology by applying it to the development of a mobile music delivery business.