Influencing the success of spreadsheet development by novice users
ICIS '98 Proceedings of the international conference on Information systems
Organisational Learning and Software Process Improvement: A Case Study
LSO '01 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Advances in Learning Software Organizations
An approach for categorizing end user programmers to guide software engineering research
WEUSE I Proceedings of the first workshop on End-user software engineering
Applying code inspection to spreadsheet testing
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Strategic and competitive information systems
Spreadsheet presentation and error detection: an experimental study
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and its organizational impact
The role of spreadsheet knowledge in user-developed application success
Decision Support Systems
Topes: reusable abstractions for validating data
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Using topes to validate and reformat data in end-user programming tools
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on End-user software engineering
User developed application success: sources and effects of involvement
Behaviour & Information Technology
Intelligently creating and recommending reusable reformatting rules
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
A Study of Help Requested Online by Spreadsheet Users
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
End User Computing: The Dark Matter and Dark Energy of Corporate IT
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
End User Computing: The Dark Matter and Dark Energy of Corporate IT
Journal of Organizational and End User Computing
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Australian spreadsheet application developers and their development practices in the field were surveyed. The developer population was mainly of graduate level but otherwise varied. Their development practices exhibited a high level of risk with a very low level of managerial, I.T. department or auditor control. Few of the developers surveyed were aware of a spreadsheet control policy within their organization and even less had a documented copy available to them. The applications in the study were of significant status and most were developed in relatively uncontrolled environments. Most applications were large and of moderate or high importance. The majority involved Corporate rather than purely private data and the output of nearly one third was distributed beyond the organization where it was developed. The developers usage of design, formula, input, output, review, testing, documentation and security controls is reported together with developer opinions as to each control's appropriateness for their particular application. The significance to the management of end-user computing of tolerating a high level of risk is discussed and the need for an end-user spreadsheet control model is established. Suitable metrics to measure spreadsheet complexity, importance and developer expertise are required.