Beyond Methodologies: Keeping up with Information Systems Development Approaches through Dynamic Classification

Authors:
Juhani Iivari;Rudy Hirschheim;Heinz K. Klein
Affiliations:
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Venue:
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Year:
1999

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Abstract

There are hundreds of information systems development methodologies (ISDMs), yet the number of ISDMs that an organization can consider for adoption or adaptation must be quite small. This paper argues for the benefits of an abstraction hierarchy that separates "essential" ISDM features from their "accidental" details. Moreover a procedure with two examples is introduced for dynamically updating the abstraction hierarchy. This construct organizes the field of ISDMs into a comprehensible number of "approaches". It shifts the discussion from individual ISDMs as units of analysis to the features of more general approaches capturing the essences of their instance methodologies.