by Francois Coetzee

Creating business models that are easy to understand are invaluable tools for understanding the inner workings of the organization, its functions, its role players and the business entities it uses, creates and consumes. It is a critical foundation for the system models that describe the supporting software architecture and allows for easy trace-ability and impact assessments of business to system and system to business. Using the simple approach described in this article will allow the business modeller to rapidly create accurate business models.

Serious games are games whose primary purpose is not entertainment. Cooperative games structure communication (e.g. contract bridge) and cooperation (e.g. soccer) between players in the same group.

Using serious, cooperative games improves Requirements Understanding (RU). This paper defines six RU games, maps them into ‘initial understanding space’, and shows how to use a special Ouija board to choose the games to play on your project. An example of RU game selection is included.