Improving requirements analysis through business process modelling: A participative approach

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 7 LNBIP, Issue , 2008, Pages 165-176

  De La Vara, Jose Luis ^a   Sánchez, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

BPMN; Business process; Communication; Requirements analysis; Understanding of the business

Indexed keywords

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

BPMN; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELING; BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; END-USERS; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSTS; UNDERSTANDING OF THE BUSINESS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350052998     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79396-0_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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