Socio-technical and soft approaches to information requirements elicitation in the post-methodology era

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 67-73

  Atkinson, Christopher J ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information requirements; Information systems development; Methodologies; Research; Sociotechnical; Soft systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009013863     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00010347     Document Type: Article

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