A goal-oriented requirements language extension for modelling strategic analysis of an organization

This work proposes to include basic concepts about strategic analysis in goal modelling, in order to link software solutions with organizational strategies. For modelling the software-strategy alignment it is suggested to extend the Goal-oriented Requirements Language (GRL), which is a graphical notation considered as a standard into the Requirements Engineering field. This proposal, named GRL-SA (GRL focused on Strategic Alignment), comprises: 1) the inclusion of fundamental concepts relative to strategic management (vision, mission, courses of action) and 2) the assignment of an abstraction level to each goal considering its scope. The use of abstraction levels supports the rationale required for goals refinement and the contribution analysis between goals of one level to another. In order to validate this proposal, GRL-SA was applied to a case study