Computer Systems Development
History, Organization and Implementation
Published on 25. October 1989
Book
Hardback
436 pages
978-0-471-92399-2 (ISBN)
Description
This work provides a survey of data processing managers, carried out primarily in Britain. It examines the attitudes of computer-users and the changes which are taking place in the workplace, which in turn are reflected in a major shift in systems development management attitudes.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
36 line drawings, 31 tables, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 54 mm
Width: 35 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-92399-2 (9780471923992)
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Content
Part I Background and theory: approaching the history of computer systems development; building a model of the phases of computerization growth. Part 2 Phase one and phase two - hardware and software constraints dominate: phase one - hardware constraints; phase two - software problems dominate; phase two - strategies for dealing with the software bottleneck. Part 3 Phase three - user needs dominate: successful systems development, the system life cycle and identifying users; the literature on user relations problems; agents of change - generating user relations problems; early reactions to user relations problems; three strategies for dealing with user relations problems; the information systems function in phase three. Part 4 Prospects and implications: the future - whither computer systems developers?; conclusions and generalizations.