A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT - A DECISION-MAKING PROCESS PERSPECTIVE
Chris J. Barry · 2003
Academics and practitioners have been increasingly aware that there is a credibility gap between claims made for the benefits and usage of information systems (IS) methodologies and the actuality of systems development practice. Apparent breakthroughs in development practices such as structured methods and later objectoriented methods have done little to simplify the process. There have been hundreds of methodologies (mainly commercial) proposed over the past three decades, often used with limited success. The prospect or expectation that new methodologies would ease the burden of development has never really been realised many aspects of it are as chaotic and unstructured as ever. Far from being simplified, systems development has become ever more complex, as systems functionality grows to meet organizational and user needs. Furthermore, firms are buying in rather than building software wherever possible – significantly changing the component parts of IS, elaborating activities such as systems integration, project management and outsourcing management.