Experiment: Understandability of Goal Modeling with ARMOR

In large companies the gap between business and IT is usually bridged by designing and maintaining an enterprise architecture (EA). An enterprise architecture is a high-level representation of the enterprise, used for managing the relation between business and IT. Large organizations benefit from modeling their enterprise architectures in order to coordinate IT projects and the management of IT costs. In addition, in recent years EA is used to increase the flexibility of the organization and to justify the contribution of IT to business goals. This requires an extension of EA modelling languages with concepts such as business goal and business value, and support for tracing business goals to EA components. In previous work [2, 7] we defined a goal-oriented language called ARMOR, based on the concepts found in goal-oriented requirements engineering (GORE). ARMOR has become part of the Open Group EA modeling language standard ArchiMate [9].