We motivate the need for a new requirements engineering
methodology for systematically helping businesses and users to
adopt cloud services and for mitigating risks in such transition.
The methodology is grounded in goal oriented approaches for
requirements engineering. We argue that Goal Oriented
Requirements Engineering (GORE) is a promising paradigm to
adopt for goals that are generic and flexible statements of users’
requirements, which could be refined, elaborated, negotiated,
mitigated for risks and analysed for economics considerations. We
describe the steps of the proposed process and exemplify the use
of the methodology through an example. The methodology can be
used by small to large scale organisations to inform crucial
decisions related to cloud adoption.