Perform milestone based reduction

This guideline provides a means to decompose an initial goal based on the identification of the goals of the different miletsones that stand out for the fulfilment of the initial goal.

Perform these activities

Acitivity	Techniques and Tools	Comments
Identify milestone	Process documentation. Interview business experts.	This step must be performed for all milestones that shall be reached for the fulfilment of the goal being studied
Elicit goal from milestone		This step must be performed for each milestone that has been identified during the previous step.
Perform an AND reduction	EKD-Goal Graph Editor	All identified goals must be added in the goal hierarchy as sub-goals of the goal being reduced with an AND connector.

A goal has been elicited

Enterprise goal model