Structured Systems Development
Structured Systems Development
People and organizations in software production: a review of the literature
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
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In the early days of business computing, a typical application, for example, a payroll system, might be developed by a single individual who understood both the application (payroll) requirements and the computing (hardware and software) requirements needed to deal with the problem. Using this approach worked well at the time and continues to work well today in certain situations. In a complex and dynamic business environment, the approach is, of necessity, quite different. As Kenneth Orr (1) has pointed out, our thoughts on the application of computing technology have evolved from simple, small systems which could be developed by a single person to complex, large-scale systems which require great quantities of money, time and people to develop, and which are so plagued with delivery problems that the process has begun to tax the endurance of business organizations everywhere. It was in response to this new environment that the process for developing computerized systems began to develop into a more formalized set of procedures.