Critical systems analysis and design: A personal framework approach

Critical Systems Analysis and Design: A Personal Framework Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1-291

  Patel, Nandish V ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84906192630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203400975     Document Type: Book

References (40)

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2. For the development of critical thinking in learners see the Delphi Report: Facione, P. A. (1990) Critical Thinking: a Statement of Expert Consensus for Purposes of Educational Assessment and Instruction, Millbrae: Santa Clara University, pp. 1-19.
3. An elaboration of the holistic approach to learning and teaching, upon which this book is based, can be found in: Patel, N. V. (2003) 'A Holistic Approach to Learning and Teaching Interaction: Factors in the Development of Critical Learners', International Journal of Educational Management, 17(6): 243-247.
4. A rather old edition but the original contains a fuller elaboration of the repertory grid technique and how to interpret the hidden meanings within it, is: Thomas, L. F. and Harri-Augstein, E. S. (1985) Self-Organised Learning, Foundations of a Conversational Science of Psychology, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
5. Checkland's work is seminal in systems thinking. See: Checkland, P. (1999) Systems Thinking, Systems Practice, Chichester: Wiley.
6. For the relevance of systems thinking for IS see: Checkland, P. and Hollwell, S. (1998) Information, Systems, and Information Systems, Chichester: Wiley.
7. The seminal work on situated action is by Suchman, L. (1994) Plans and Situated Actions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
8. For recent developments in situated contextual factors in software development see the insightful work by Dourish, P. (2001) Where the Action Is: Foundations for Embodied Interaction, Cambridge, MA: Bradford Book, MIT Press.
9. For seminal work of socio-technical approaches to Information System development see: Mumford, E. (1983) Designing Human Information Computer Systems for New Technology, The ETHICS Method, Manchester: Manchester Business School.
10. A revised and updated edition is: Mumford, E. (1993) 'The Participation of User in IS Design: an Account of the Origin, Evolution, and Use of the ETHICS Method', in Douglas, S. and Namoka, A. (eds) Participatory Design, Principles and Practice, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 257-270.
11. Eva, M. (1994) SSADM Version 4: a User's Guide (2nd edn), London: MacGrawHill.
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13. A standard textbook on project management techniques is Yeates, D. and Cadle, J. (2001) Project Management for Information System, London: Pitman Publishing.
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16. To construct activity-on-arrow networks see: Yeates, Y. and Cadle, J. (1996) Project Management for Information Systems, Harlow: Prentice Hall. Chapter 6 provides an overview of activity-onarrow networks and work breakdown.
17. For an alternative perspective on software development read Chapter 1 by Patel in: Patel, N. V. (2003) (ed.) Evolutionary Adaptive Information Systems, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.
18. An alternative model of IT governance is in Patel, N. V. (2002) 'Emergent Forms of IT Governance to Support Global eBusiness Models', Journal of Information Technology Theory and Applications, 4(2): 33-48.
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25. Tim Berners-Lee is the founder of the world wide web. He is now the Head of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). For his thoughts on the semantic web see: Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J. and Lassila, O. (2001) 'The Semantic Web', Scientific American, May.
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29. For an understanding of the philosophical basis of methodologies see: Fitzgerald, G. and Avison, D. (2003) Information System Development: Methodologies, Techniques and Tools (3rd edn), London: McGrawHill.
30. For a special issue dedicated to social computing see: 'Communication of the ACM', Social Computing, 37(1) January 1994.
31. For systems thinking applied to human activity systems, which accounts for social action see: Checkland, P. B. (1981) Systems Thinking, System Practice, Chichester: Wiley.
32. For a complete discussion of the four paradigms of IS development see: Hirschheim, R. and Klein, H. (1989) 'Four Paradigms of Information Systems Development', Communications of the ACM, 32(10): 1199-1215.
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36. For chapters on deferred system's design see: Patel, N. V. (ed.) (2003) Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems, Hershey, PA: Idea Publishing.
37. Harris, H. J. and Patel, N. V. (2001) 'A Narrative Analysis of Information System Development in a Local Government Organization: Conversations Reflecting Deferred System's Design', ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Application, Tampa Bay, Florida.
38. Patel, N. V. (2004) 'Deferred Systems: Deferring the Design Process and Systems', Journal of Applied System Studies, 5(1).
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40. For an application of DSD see: Stamoulis, D., Theotokis, D., Martakos, D. and Gyftodimos, G. (2003) 'Ateleological Development of Design-Decisions-Independent Information Systems', in Patel, N. V. (ed.) Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems, Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.