A prototype approach to information system design and development

Bally, Laurent; Brittan, John; Wagner, K.

doi:10.1016/0378-7206(77)90005-2

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“…• In the strategy of successive prototypes lies a danger of blindness ('tunnel vision' (Sol, 1984), 'model effect' (Bally, et al, 1977). Once the process of development of successive prototypes has started, the danger arises that one is led to elaborate the details of the current prototype instead of questioning its underlying premises.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Challenging Practice: an approach to Cooperative Analysis

Mogensen¹

1994

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Cooperative Analysis takes as its starting point the tradition of user-involvement in system development in Scandinavia, especially cooperative design. It points to the mismatch in this tradition between analysis as passive observation and design as cooperative intervention. Cooperative Analysis is conducted cooperatively and through intervention in the practice beeing analysed. Cooperative Analysis is seen as part of a large development process, and is thus seen as facilitating taking action in order to bring about change. The primary approach is one of provoking current practice through concrete experience. Provocation serves the purpose of calling forth hitherto taken-for-granted issues as well as it challenges the existing practice to investigate its dynamics and open up for new possibilities. As two specific means to this end, the book introduces an approach of using artifacts (e.g. commercially available products, prototypes, and mock-ups) to trigger new understandings of current practice and it introduces dilemma games to challenge current practice by exposing it to some of its inherent dilemmas.

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Section: Prototypingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The notion of prototyping in systems development emerged in the late 1970's (Bally, Brittan, & Wagner, 1977;Naumann & Jenkins, 1982) as a reaction against more traditional phase-oriented models (e.g. linear models, life-cycle models, waterfall models, etc.)…”

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Challenging Practice: an approach to Cooperative Analysis

Mogensen¹

1994

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“…CESD acknowledges that concrete activities may contribute to several abstract concerns and that they do so embedded in a related domain context. Viewed on the activity level, CESD is in many ways similar to a number of system development approaches ranging from the original prototyping approach (Bally et al, 1977) to the more current such as STEPS (Floyd et al, 1989), Budde et al's prototyping approaches (Budde et al, 1992), Rapid Application Development (RAD) as exemplified by the Dynamic System Development Method (DSDM; (Stapleton, 1997)), M.A.D. , Adaptive Software Development (Highsmith, 2000), Rational Unified Process (Kruchten, 1999), Extreme Programming (XP; (Beck, 1999)), and the Crystal Family (Cockburn, 2001).…”

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Experimental Object-Oriented Modelling

Hansen¹

2002

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This thesis examines object-oriented modelling in experimental system development. Object-oriented modelling aims at representing concepts and phenomena of a problem domain in terms of classes and objects. Experimental system development seeks active experimentation in a system development project through, e.g., technical prototyping and active user involvement. We introduce and examine "experimental object-oriented modelling" as the intersection of these practices.The contributions of this thesis are expected to be within three perspectives on models and modelling in experimental system development:Grounding We develop an empirically based conceptualization of modelling and use of models in system development projects characterized by a high degree of uncertainty in requirements and point to implications for tools and techniques for modelling in such a setting.

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“…The notion of prototyping in systems development emerged in the late 1970's (Naumann & Jenkins 1982, Bally et al 1977 as a reaction against more traditional phase-oriented models (e.g. linear models, life-cycle models, waterfall models etc.)…”

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“…linear models, life-cycle models, waterfall models etc.) of how to develop computer systems (Avison & Fitzgerald 1988, Bally et al 1977, Boehm 1988, Hekmatpour & Ince 1988, Lantz 1986. Two basic problems seem common to most of the critiques:…”

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Towards a Prototyping Approach in Systems Development

Mogensen¹

1992

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This paper explores the notion of 'provocation through concrete experience' towards a provotyping approach. It addresses the question: How do we on the one hand, devise qualitatively new systems, and on the other hand, ensure their usability in a given practice? The notion of provocation through concrete experience is developed through an investigation of prototyping and activity theory. Exploration of this notion leads to the idea of the system developer 'provoking' concrete, everyday practice, by exposing current problems, calling forth what usually is taken for granted. Problems with current practice and a lack of mutual understanding, usually conceived of as hindrances to successful systems development, are used constructively. These ideas are compared to four related approaches: Future Workshops, Metaphorical Design, Cooperative Prototyping, and Organizational Games. The comparison serves the twofold purpose of contextualizing the new ideas as well as developing techniques for carrying them out.

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A prototype approach to information system design and development

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Challenging Practice: an approach to Cooperative Analysis

Challenging Practice: an approach to Cooperative Analysis

Experimental Object-Oriented Modelling

Towards a Prototyping Approach in Systems Development

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