A pattern-based question checklist for deriving requirements from BPMN models

Abstract

Concerning the realization of planned Business Processes through IT-Systems (IT Alignment), Requirement Elicitation is of central importance. One decisive factor for success is the experience knowledge of the Requirement Engineers, especially concerning the know how to ask the right questions for eliciting unknown requirements as early as possible in a project. This article presents an approach how this experience knowledge can be captured in a Pattern-based Question Checklist providing a structured set of questions to derive requirements from Business Processes modeled in BPMN. This captured knowledge can thus be provided to less experienced Requirement Engineers supporting them in their Requirement Elicitation activities.