Observational Studies of new i* Users: Challenges and Recommendations
Jennifer Horkoff · 2015
As users and teachers of i* and related frameworks, we work with certain assumptions about which concepts and conventions are easy or more difficult for new i* users to learn and use. As part of a recent research initiative examining the possible synergies between goal modeling and creativity tech- niques for requirements engineering, I have conducted an exploratory study ex- amining groups of graduate and undergraduate students working together to draw i* models. Several observations were made about the way students worked together to draw models, including the areas and concepts in which they had particular difficulty. I summarize and report on these findings, in the hope that it can have a positive impact on the way i* and other goal modeling frame- works are taught or introduced to new users.