There's more to information systems development than structured approaches: Information requirements analysis as a socially mediated process 1

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 74-82

  Galliers, R D ^a   Swan, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study research; Cognitive schemas; Formal and informal information; Information requirements analysis; Information systems development; Management of knowledge; Structured approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002540607     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007660070011     Document Type: Article

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