Itemized Strategic Dependency : A Variant of the i* SD Model to Facilitate Knowledge Elicitation
Hesam Chiniforooshan Esfahani, Shuo Yu, María Carmela Annosi · 2010
Abstract. This paper introduces a variant of the i * Strategic Dependency (SD) model, called Itemized Strategic Dependency (ISD). The goal of introducing ISDs was to use a simplified version of SD diagrams to model actor dependencies in requirements and process engineering. We used ISD models during the early stages of a software process improvement initiative in one of R&D organizations at Ericsson Italy. In this paper, we explain how ISDs helped us to interact with people who were not familiar with the i * notation; to elicit their knowledge of organization; and to reveal the hidden problems of their software development process. 1