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Information Systems Development

Challenges in Practice, Theory, and Education Volume 1

  • Presents the latest and greatest concepts, approaches, and techniques of systems development - a notoriously transitional field
  • Illustrates the newest design and development in information systems, in applications engineering and reengineering, as well as issues concerned with teaching and learning in this field

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Table of contents (42 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Using Visual Risk Assessment to Uncover Subtle Team Performance Issues

    • Philip S. Taylor, Gerry Coleman, Kevin McDaid, Frank Keenan, Dave Bustard
    Pages 15-23
  3. Soft Systems Methodology: An Aid to Agile Development?

    • D. Bustard, F. Keenan
    Pages 25-38
  4. Methodology Usage by Virtual Information Systems Development Teams

    • Brenda Mullally, Larry Stapleton
    Pages 39-50
  5. Method Deployment in Small- and Medium-Sized Firms: Addressing the Organizational Context

    • T. Päivärinta, E. Ã…. Larsen, L. Ingulfsvann, Ø. Kristiansen
    Pages 65-77
  6. Method Construction by Goal Analysis

    • C. Gonzalez-Perez, P. Giorgini, B. Henderson-Sellers
    Pages 79-91
  7. The Agile Development of Rule Bases

    • Valentin Zacharias
    Pages 93-104
  8. Is There Only One Systems Development Life Cycle?

    • J. Hedman, M. Lind
    Pages 105-116
  9. A Practical Example for Model-Driven Web Requirements

    • M. J. Escalona, C. L. Parra, F. M. Martín, J. Nieto, A. Llergo, F. Pérez
    Pages 157-168
  10. A Survey of the Web/Hypermedia Development Process in Croatia

    • Dijana Plantak Vukovac, Bozidar Klicek
    Pages 183-194
  11. Requirements Engineering During Complex ISD: A Sensemaking Approach

    • Päivi Ovaska, Larry Stapleton
    Pages 195-209
  12. Understanding the Problems of Requirements Elicitation Process: A Human Perspective

    • Dace Apshvalka, Dace Donina, Marite Kirikova
    Pages 211-223
  13. Contextual Inquiry and Requirements Shaping

    • Peter M. Bednar, Christine Welch
    Pages 225-236

About this book

Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice.

This conference will discuss issues pertaining to information systems development (ISD) in the inter-networked digital economy. Participants will include researchers, both experienced and novice, from industry and academia, as well as students and practitioners. Themes will include methods and approaches for ISD; ISD education; philosophical, ethical, and sociological aspects of ISD; as well as specialized tracks such as: distributed software development, ISD and knowledge management, ISD and electronic business / electronic government, ISD in public sector organizations, IOS.

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