Supporting Materials for Creative Goal Modeling for Innovative Requirements

Data supporting IST paper : Creative Goal Modeling for Innovative Requirements
J. Horkoff, N. A. Maiden, D. Asboth

Abstract
[Context] When determining the functions and qualities (a.k.a. requirements)
for a system, creativity is key to drive innovation and foster business
success. However, creative requirements must be practically operationalized,
grounded in concrete functions and system interactions. Requirements Engineering
(RE) has produced a wealth of methods centered around goal modeling,
in order to graphically explore the space of alternative requirements, linking
functions to goals and dependencies. In parallel work, creativity theories from
the social sciences have been applied to the design of creative requirements workshops,
pushing stakeholders to develop innovative systems. Goal models tend
to focus on what is known, while creativity workshops are expensive, require
a specic skill set to facilitate, and produce mainly paper-based, unstructured
outputs. [Objective] Our aim in this work is to explore benecial combinations
of the two areas of work in order to overcome these and other limitations,
facilitating creative requirements elicitation, supported by a simple extension
of a well-known and structured requirements modeling technique. [Method]
We take a Design Science approach, iterating over exploratory studies, design,
and summative validation studies. [Results] The result is the Creative Leaf
tool and method supporting creative goal modeling for RE. [Conclusion] We
support creative RE by making creativity techniques more accessible, producing
structured digital outputs which better match to existing RE methods with
associated analysis procedures and transformations.