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This paper illustrates ten lightweight SA&D tools that could support initial deliberations about system requirements and subsequent sanity checking for high-level designs and for proposed functions and features. The tools are as relevant to agile development as to other approaches related to work systems in organizations. A brief introduction to the work system perspective leads to a section that illustrates ten SA&D tools based directly on work system theory or its extensions. The tools are applied to the same situation, a hiring system at a technical firm. These tools are not part of established SA&D pedagogy or practice. This paper’s ideas provide a context for comparing the focus of established SA&D methods and tools with a broader view of SA&D that engages managers and other business professionals more fully.
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Alter, Steven, "Ten Lightweight Systems Analysis and Design Tools Based on Work System Theory and Its Extensions" (2020). AMCIS 2020 Proceedings. 4.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2020/adv_info_systems_research/adv_info_systems_research/4
Ten Lightweight Systems Analysis and Design Tools Based on Work System Theory and Its Extensions
This paper illustrates ten lightweight SA&D tools that could support initial deliberations about system requirements and subsequent sanity checking for high-level designs and for proposed functions and features. The tools are as relevant to agile development as to other approaches related to work systems in organizations. A brief introduction to the work system perspective leads to a section that illustrates ten SA&D tools based directly on work system theory or its extensions. The tools are applied to the same situation, a hiring system at a technical firm. These tools are not part of established SA&D pedagogy or practice. This paper’s ideas provide a context for comparing the focus of established SA&D methods and tools with a broader view of SA&D that engages managers and other business professionals more fully.
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