Scenarios for system development: matching context and strategy
Titel:
Scenarios for system development: matching context and strategy
Auteur:
Van Offenbeek, Marjolein A. G. Koopman, Paul L.
Verschenen in:
Behaviour & information technology
Paginering:
Jaargang 15 (1996) nr. 4 pagina's 250-265
Jaar:
1996-07-01
Inhoud:
. A comparison of seventeen contingency models for system development SD led to the conclusion that no model supports all requested activities: diagnosing the context, describing alternative approaches, matching context and approach, looking at social organizational issues, and supporting a dynamic fit between context and approach. This study paid special attention to the social and organizational aspects of system development. Our contingency model specifies five possible types of risk functional uncertainty, conflict potential, technical uncertainty and resistance potential in system development that should be controlled. For each type, a corresponding proposition about its control was derived from this model and analysed in seven system development processes. We succeeded in explaining the outcome of the development process through the fit between context and situation, thereby gaining some preliminary support for the model. Still, the limitations of such a contingency model are to be taken seriously.
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