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Information requirements determination: obstacles within, among and between participants

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John R Valusek,

Dennis G FrybackAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCPR '85: Proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference on Computer personnel research

Pages 103 - 111

https://doi.org/10.1145/16687.16700

Published: 01 December 1985 Publication History

Abstract

Information Requirements Determination (IRD) is presented as a process with obstacles WITHIN individual “users”, AMONG “users”, and BETWEEN “users” and systems developers. A distinction is made between IRD and Information Requirements Analysis (IRA), two labels which are often used interchangeably. The triple-obstacle view of IRD/IRA problems and the distinction between IRD and IRA is suggested as an approach for research into the requirements determination process. A user-oriented IRD tool designed to attack the “within” obstacles is identified as the basis for the authors' current research into how to improve the user's lot in the development of information systems.

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Information requirements determination: obstacles within, among and between participants
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Systems development
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types
        Extensible languages

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