Understanding computers and cognition
Understanding computers and cognition
A field study of the software design process for large systems
Communications of the ACM
Critical issues in information systems research
Understanding the elements of system design
Critical issues in information systems research
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2)
Information systems development research: an exploration of ideas in practice
The Computer Journal - Special issue on methodologies (systems and software)
The technology of team navigation
Intellectual teamwork
Knowledge exploited by experts during software system design
International Journal of Man-Machine Studies - What programmers know
Designing interaction
Soft systems methodology in action
Soft systems methodology in action
Enacting design for the workplace
Usability
A reappraisal of structured analysis: design in an organizational context
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Process innovation: reengineering work through information technology
Process innovation: reengineering work through information technology
Power over users: its exercise by system professionals
Communications of the ACM
Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations
Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations
Against Structured Approaches: Information Requirements Analysis as a Socially Mediated Process
HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Information System Track-Organizational Systems and Technology - Volume 3
EACE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 annual conference on European association of cognitive ergonomics
A framework for understanding how a unique and local IS development method emerges in practice
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
Evaluating a Mobile Emergency Response System
Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use
Factors that affect software systems development project outcomes: A survey of research
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Qualitative research on software development: a longitudinal case study methodology
Empirical Software Engineering
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The aim of this paper is to examine the nature of information systems (IS) design as situated in its organizational context. Much of the IS literature takes a fragmented perspective of the nature of IS design, examining methodological issues, social issues, or political issues in isolation from the context of the design initiative. Recent work in situated action and social cognition provides a basis for a more integrated understanding of situated IS design.Findings from a participant observation study of situated IS design are discussed, to form the basis for an integrative, social action model of IS design. Findings from the study demonstrate how innovative IS design activity is situated in its organizational context. It is argued that the form and nature of an organizational design "problem" is inseparable from its context and that design knowledge is distributed among a design team rather than shared intersubjectively. The situated nature of design requires design skills to be learned through simulated design contexts, rather than the communication of abstract models (as in many formal education programs). The situated model rejects the predefined goal-structures assumed by decompositional models of design, such as the "waterfall" model. It is suggested that design goal-definition must proceed recursively through the processes of design, which requires new approaches to the design and development of organizational information systems.