This paper provides a longitudinal description and analysis of the evolving relationships
between a university and vendors contracted to develop software systems. A contextualised …

This longitudinal study looks at the metaphors used in a public sector information systems
development project from the perspective of cognitive metaphor theory (Lakoff & Johnson,) …

A variety of experiences in software development processes between a public sector
organisation and several software vendors over a decade-long period are described and …

Project governance is an important activity in agile software development (ASD) projects for
project success. Middle managers are part of the governance structure in ASD projects …

This paper reports on the experiences gained while combining practical information systems
development work and scholarly research. The overall framework is a development of …

In this paper we report on a case study of a participatory design process we call Community
Driven Development (CDD). Together with a German software company we developed a …

Participatory Design methods already have followed these lines since the 1980s. However,
it has always been far from obvious what participation exactly means when it comes to …

Explores the possibilities of basing scientific investigation onthe practical experiences
gained by the author when he participated inthe development of the Student Information …

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the promise of new computing paradigms
(CP) like the diskless computing paradigm, running applications off a network. The …

Learning experiences from twenty‐seven administrative information‐system‐development
projects in a large Finnish university are analysed over a time frame of eighteen years. A …