Information Systems Development in Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9783639180244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str.

Pivi Ovaska

Opis

During thirty years of history, planning, designingand implementing the information systems have faced agreat deal of productivity problems. Theseproductivity problems include slipping schedules,cost overruns and low systems quality with increasedmaintenance costs. In response to these productivity and qualityproblems, researchers have developed differentmethodical approaches.Paradoxically, despite the efforts devoted tomethodical approaches, systems have continued tofail. Only a few studies concentrate on empiricalresearch of the systems development process in theorganizational context. This book therefore fills this gap by furtherclarifying how systems development process is managedin practice. This objective is reached by conductinga series of empirical studies of two systemsdevelopment projects in an organization competing ininformation technology business.The studies should help shed some light on thesystems development and should be especially usefulto researchers and professionals in InformationSystems and Software Engineering fields, or anyoneelse who may be considering to implement informationsystems.

O autorze

Dr. Päivi Ovaska is a researcher and lecturer specializing in the
fields of information systems development, implementation and
adoption in organisations. She has gained a long experience from
software industry while workingin several software firms in
Finland over 15 years. Now she is working in South Karelia
University of Applied Sciences.