Specifications in Context: Stakeholders, Systems and Modelling of Conflict |
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Authors: | J. M. Coakes E. W. Coakes |
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Affiliation: | (1) Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, London, UK, GB |
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Abstract: | This paper looks from an ethnographic viewpoint at the case of two information systems in a multinational engineering consultancy. It proposes using the rich findings from ethnographic analysis during requirements discovery. The paper shows how context – organisational and social – can be taken into account during an information system development process. Socio-technical approaches are holistic in nature and provide opportunities to produce information systems utilising social science insights, computer science technical competence and psychological approaches. These approaches provide fact-finding methods that are appropriate to system participants’ and organisational stakeholders’ needs. The paper recommends a method of modelling that results in a computerised information system data model that reflects the conflicting and competing data and multiple perspectives of participants and stakeholders, and that improves interactivity and conflict management. |
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Keywords: | : Data modelling – Ethnography – Information systems development – Requirements engineering – Socio-technical |
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