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Monterey Workshop 2007: Innovations for Requirement Analysis. From Stakeholders’ Needs to Formal Designs pp 161–181Cite as

On the Identification of Goals in Stakeholders’ Dialogs

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Contradictions in requirements are inevitable in early project stages. To resolve these contradictions, it is necessary to know the rationale (goals) that lead to the particular requirements. In early project stages one stakeholder rarely knows the goals of the others. Sometimes the stakeholders cannot explicitly state even their own goals. Thus, the goals have to be elaborated in the process of requirements elicitation and negotiation.

This paper shows how the goals can be derived by systematic analysis of stakeholders dialogs. The derived goals have to be presented to the stakeholders for validation. Then, when the goals are explicitly stated and validated, it becomes easier to resolve requirements contradictions.

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Kof, L. (2008). On the Identification of Goals in Stakeholders’ Dialogs. In: Paech, B., Martell, C. (eds) Innovations for Requirement Analysis. From Stakeholders’ Needs to Formal Designs. Monterey Workshop 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89778-1_13

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