Enterprise Analyzer: electronic support for group requirements elicitation

The paper reports two cases in which groups from the USA Army used an automated meeting environment to define the functional requirements of two modules of a large integrated information system. The process used for these sessions is called Enterprise Analyzer, a combination of tools, facilities, facilitation, and processes that blends aspects of both computer aided software engineering (CASE) and the University of Arizona´s GroupSystems Electronic Meeting System (EMS). The paper describes the evolution of the Enterprise Analyzer concept as it matured throughout the two elicitation and refinement sessions. These experiences led us to develop new techniques, tools and procedures for group requirements elicitation, which have been used during three later sessions and will be used in future sessions