My talks and notes about business analysis and requirements engineering.https://gytisgurklys.eu/enhttps://gytisgurklys.eu/en/posts/information-transformation-in-software-engineering/https://gytisgurklys.eu/en/posts/information-transformation-in-software-engineering/A six-level model describing software development as an information transformation from unspoken business intent to a working system: an artifact registry, a role model and a detailed analysis of the business analyst's work.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:00:00 GMThttps://gytisgurklys.eu/en/posts/theoretical-basis-for-modeling-the-eudamed-domain/https://gytisgurklys.eu/en/posts/theoretical-basis-for-modeling-the-eudamed-domain/A theoretical basis for modeling the EUDAMED domain: a real entity, an MDR-defined role and a EUDAMED record are three separate sorts, not one thing under different names, grounded in foundational ontology, institutional-fact theory and compliance theory.Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:00:00 GMThttps://gytisgurklys.eu/en/posts/on-business-rules/https://gytisgurklys.eu/en/posts/on-business-rules/Slides from a 2020 talk on business rules: a survey of colleagues that showed uneven practice, and what the OMG SBVR standard says about writing them.Tue, 10 Mar 2020 08:00:00 GMThttps://gytisgurklys.eu/en/posts/on-business-requirements/https://gytisgurklys.eu/en/posts/on-business-requirements/Slides from a 2018 talk on what business requirements are and how they differ from a specification — with the answer looked for in Michael Jackson's problem frames.Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:00:00 GMT