Datamation
Power, politics, and MIS implementation
Communications of the ACM
Information Resource Management: Opportunities and Strategies for the 1980s
Information Resource Management: Opportunities and Strategies for the 1980s
Alternative designs in informatoin system development
MIS Quarterly
A flexible approach to information systems developmoent
MIS Quarterly
Attributes of information system development
MIS Quarterly
Use of Software Engineering Practices at a Small MIS Shop
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Successful Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Perceptual Congruence and Systems Development Cost Estimation
Information Resources Management Journal
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Whether user participation in the Management Information Systems MIS development process is beneficial continues to be an uncertain issue. Although proponents claim user participation is important to MIS success, others indicate that user participation can be dysfunctional, thus leading to suboptimal systems that take longer to develop. Nonetheless, very little is written about how to implement and manage participative systems development activities. This paper presents a case study on how participative systems development was implemented and managed in a very large scale MIS project. The discussion points out that while adopting this development approach did lengthen the schedule and increase the costs of the development over original projections, it also led to a series of smooth incremental implementations.