Takanobu Kobori, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Yukihiko Akasaka, Hisayoshi Adachi, Takae Arai, Yasushi Ishigai, Tatsuo Ide, Masahiro Ide, Yukihiko Ejiri, Yasuko Okazaki, Yasuhiro Kikushima, Tomoko Kishida, Katsutoshi Shintani, Atsushi Nishizawa, Norifumi Nomura, Daisuke Hirabayashi, Hideki Matsuoka, Kotaro Mita, Tatsuya Kimura, “Efficient identification of rationales by stakeholder relationship analysis to refine and maintain GQM+Strategies models,” Proceedings of the 1st Asia Pacific Requirements Engineering Symposium (APRES 2014), pp.XX-YY, Auckland, New Zealand, April 28-29, 2014. (to appear) (APRES2014_kobori_20140207.pdf)

GQM+Strategies1 is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to achieve overall business goals and assesses the achievement of such goals. Strategies are extracted from business goals based on rationales (contexts and assumptions). Using the proposed ap-proach, which refines the GQM+Strategies model by extracting rationales based on the analysis of the relationships between stakeholders, it is possible to ex-tract rationales exhaustively and to reconsider the GQM+Strategies model even if the business environment changes.