Guidelines for Information Systems Development: Composition, Decomposition and Evolutionary Concepts

The participation of users in the development process is becoming increasingly important. They are confronted with the growing importance of information technology. It is essential to provide a total picture of the IS development process indicating the responsibilities of both the IS and non-IS professionals.
This book will serve a dual purpose: it will provide the IS manager and project leader with a complete overview of the development process indicating interfaces and relationships, while for the non-IS professional an insight is given into the complexity of the information systems development process, indicating where he/she can play an active role.
Many ideas in this book originate from Cees Schrama's experiences as project leader and consultant at IBM. In the years 1982-1986 he participated in various workshops and discussed with experts important concepts such as composition, decomposition, evolving development principles (thanks to Mr M. Lehman) and architectural concepts. Recent work at EIPA, where he carried out comparative studies, political and cultural concepts became apparent. It is important that leading IS professionals are aware of these concepts to be able to develop a system to the satisfaction of their government clients, but it is equally important that the top department officials are aware of the complexity of the IS development process and of the role they have to play in ensuring a workable system.