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Modeling stakeholders for information systems design processes

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In the software engineering area, stakeholders play a significant role in requirements elicitation and validation. Moreover, all the project management is integrally affected by stakeholders’ perspectives and their participation. This effect is strengthened when projects involve several organizations. Thus, a clear and explicit representation of the stakeholders and their attributes is required in order to achieve their effective management. The integration of this representation with other models capturing the knowledge of engineering design processes can be of great utility in software development projects. In this sense, this article describes the construction of an integrated model for representing stakeholders in information systems design processes. This proposal considers diverse attributes related to stakeholders and gives information for performing quantitative calculations about their interest and influence over the project. Thus, more inclusive experiences of the information systems development can be supported, even more if contexts with the participation of several organizations are considered.

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The authors want to acknowledge the financial support received from Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (25/O118—UTI1083) and Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (PAE PICT 02315). Also, they thank the anonymous reviewers who contributed with their comments to greatly improve the proposal described in this article.

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  1. CIDISI - Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ingeniería en Sistemas de Información, Facultad Regional Santa Fe - Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Lavaysse 610, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina

    Luciana C. Ballejos & Jorge M. Montagna

  2. INGAR, Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño, Avellaneda 3657, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina

    Jorge M. Montagna

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Ballejos, L.C., Montagna, J.M. Modeling stakeholders for information systems design processes. Requirements Eng 16, 281–296 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-011-0123-2

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