This White Paper focuses on Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) for IT and IT-enabled business services and proposes the creation of enterprise architecture artifacts specifically addressing NFR. It describes an NFR lifecycle and framework.

One of the major goals of enterprise architecture planning, development, and implementation is the alignment between business goals and objectives and IT capabilities. As business strategy and architecture (Phase B of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM)) drives IS and IT architecture and capabilities (Phases C and D of the ADM), the center piece of all architecture efforts and projects is requirements management.