An empirical investigation of user requirements elicitation: Comparing the effectiveness of prompting techniques

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 223-249

  Browne, Glenn J ^b   Rogich, Michael B ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Information systems development; Prompting techniques; Requirements elicitation; Systems analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034899798     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.2001.11045665     Document Type: Article

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