Environmental Traits That Support a Learning Organization: The Impact on Information System Development Projects

This paper analyses the potential of using Enterprise Modelling (EM) in agile information system development projects on the basis of a number of empirical findings. We outline the current issues and challenges that projects using agile development approaches are facing. To address these challenges we analyse what are the objectives of using EM in agile development projects and give recommendations concerning the modelling process and tool support.

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Modelling Security Patterns Using NFR Analysis

Information Security and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch099 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 1476-1487

Author(s):

M. Weiss

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

System Development ◽

Explicit Representation ◽

Functional Requirements ◽

Information System Development ◽

Security Engineering ◽

Security Patterns ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

The Impact

While many theoretical approaches to security engineering exist, they are often limited to systems of a certain complexity, and require security expertise that is not widely available. Additionally, in the practice of information system development security is but one of many concerns that needs to be addressed, and security concerns are often dealt with in an ad hoc manner. Security patterns promise to ?ll this gap. Patterns enable an ef?cient transfer of experience and skills. However, representing and selecting security patterns remains largely an empirical task. This becomes the more of a challenge as the number of security patterns documented in the literature grows, and as the patterns proposed by different authors often overlap in scope. Our contribution is to use a more explicit representation of the forces addressed by a pattern in the description of security patterns, which is based on non-functional requirements analysis. This representation helps us decide which patterns to ap-ply in a given design context, and anticipate the effect of using several patterns in combination. Speci?cally this chapter describes an approach for selecting security patterns, and exploring the impact of applying these patterns individually, and in concert with other patterns.

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Risk Perception during Information System Development in Non-Profit Health Care Organizations

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1634536 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 37 (03) ◽

pp. 302-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

T. Timpka ◽

M. Ljunggren ◽

V. Vimarlund

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Information System ◽

Risk Perception ◽

System Development ◽

Secondary Analysis ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Development Projects ◽

Design Team ◽

Information System Development ◽

Team Members

AbstractThe perception of risk exposure among design team members during the early phases of information system development projects can provide valuable strategic information for clinical organizations. To develop a typology of perceived risks during information system development projects in health care, interviews were performed with key team members from a specialist clinic, primary health care, and an informatics research group, during the requirements specification. Phenomenological data analysis and secondary integration of the results in available theories were performed. System objectives, the user requirements definition procedure, the communication pattern between design team members and project management were found to be perceived as the main risk areas. In the secondary analysis, the technical factors, identified as preventing a maximization of the use of the resources, were lack of informatics knowledge among economic decision makers and differences between customers and suppliers regarding their views on the nature of system design. During the implementation of a given strategy, decision makers may consider the requests of their own sponsors in the first place and maximize the use ofthe project resources in the second place. Informatics knowledge plays a key role in risk perception during the development of an information system in health care. Political considerations by team members are important to take into regard, since these may influence technical and economic decisions.

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Impact of Requirements Elicitation Processes on Success of Information System Development Projects

Information Technology and Management Science ◽

10.1515/itms-2016-0012 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Līga Bormane ◽

Jūlija Gržibovska ◽

Solvita Bērziša ◽

Jānis Grabis

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

System Development ◽

Requirements Elicitation ◽

Development Projects ◽

Information System Development

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Successful Information System Development Projects

Management Science ◽

10.1287/mnsc.24.2.191 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 191-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 65

Author(s):

Bert Debrabander ◽

Anders Edström

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

System Development ◽

Development Projects ◽

Information System Development

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Users As Developers In Information System Projects

Observatorio (OBS*) ◽

10.15847/obsobs132007147 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Raija Halonen

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

System Development ◽

Research Approach ◽

Development Projects ◽

Working Process ◽

Information System Development ◽

Flexible Working ◽

System Project ◽

Empirical Material

Users have been described as necessary experts in information system developments. This research introduces a viewpoint that the users are the main actors in development projects and the other participants only give their experience for the use of the actual developers. In addition to the strong involvement of users, our research emphasises the special nature of the information system project with earlier-made specifications. This article suggests that in order to achieve a successful output, a reflective and flexible working process is needed. This suggestion is valid especially in a case that is out of the line of common approaches that are described in the literature. The research approach in this study was qualitative and the empirical material was gathered from a case study. The approach was subjective and it necessitated interpretation when analysing the results. The case included an information system development that was carried out to produce an inter-organisational information system to support certain functionality between organisations. Despite the output was an information system, we argue that the approach with active users is also applicable in the development of any other artefact.

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