Istar in Practice: Scaling Up Model Acquisition
             and Other War Stories

                                Aditya Ghose

           University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
                          aditya.ghose@gmail.com



   Abstract. In reflecting on experiences from practical applications of i*,
   the hardest challenge we have had to face was that of scaling up model
   acquisition. I will describe a short-term fix that worked in the instance
   of a project with a government agency, and a more principled approach
   that we have examined in the past few years. I will also recount, time
   permitting, experiences from the use of i* in a project that addressed
   the automation of strategic alignment checking.