Info*Warder: group support software for tackling the ownership and political aspects of information systems project proposals

Author

Hart, Dennis N.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., New South Wales Univ., NSW, Australia

Volume

6

fYear

1998

fDate

6-9 Jan 1998

Firstpage

473

Abstract

It is well known that information systems development projects can be and often are the subject of political dispute within organizations. Indeed many project failures are caused not by technical problems but rather organizational ones. This paper briefly describes a theoretical model of the ownership and political issues surrounding information systems development and then, in more detail, a group support software package called Info*Warder that is being developed to try to identify in which areas ownership and political difficulties might surface at the project proposal stage

Keywords

computer aided software engineering; groupware; industrial property; information systems; politics; project management; software development management; software packages; Info*Warder; group support software package; information systems project proposals; organizations; ownership; political aspects; project failure; Books; Centralized control; Collaborative software; Computer science; Control systems; Educational institutions; Information management; Information systems; Management information systems; Proposals; Software packages; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1998., Proceedings of the Thirty-First Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kohala Coast, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8255-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1998.654807

Filename

654807