Efficient Identification of Rationales by Stakeholder Relationship Analysis to Refine and Maintain GQM+Strategies Models

GQM+Strategies 1 is an approach that aligns business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to realize overall business goals and as- sesses 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.