Eliciting tacit knowledge about requirement analysis with a Grammar-targeted Interview Method (GIM)

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-59

  Zappavigna, Michele ^a   Patrick, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Knowledge elicitation; Knowledge management; Requirement analysis; Systemic functional linguistics; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949697744     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2010.1     Document Type: Article

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