User-centered DSS design and implementation
Implementing systems for supporting management decisions
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
The application of computerized production control systems in job shop environments
Computers in Industry - Special issue on advances in computer integrated production in honour of professor C.L. Moodie's retirement
Agile software development
Production Control: A Structural and Design Oriented Approach
Production Control: A Structural and Design Oriented Approach
Building Effective Decision Support Systems
Building Effective Decision Support Systems
Pair Programming on the C3 Project
Computer
Web-Based Agile Software Development
IEEE Software
Integration of Information in Logistic Operation
Proceedings of the IFIP WG5.7 Working Conference on Integration in Production Management Systems
Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed
Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed
Adaptive design for decision support systems
ACM SIGMIS Database - Selected papers on decision support systems from the 13th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Decision support systems evolution: framework, case study and research agenda
European Journal of Information Systems
Acquiring knowledge on business processes from stakeholders' stories
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Fast assessment of production makespan using aggregate technical data
Computers in Industry
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This paper describes the evolution of a production planning system (PPS) from a simple work sequence generation tool to a useful, sustained scheduling system. Three stages of evolution are described. In the first stage, a Gantt chart sequencing tool was converted to a scheduler's information system. This change was driven by the need to support the scheduler's daily task. The second stage of evolution was caused by an MRP-ERP conversion. The integration and conversion increased overhead and complexity in the job task and hence the tool, including the transformation of the previously integrated dispatching/scheduling task into separate dispatching and scheduling activities. The third stage of evolution has been small continuous improvements driven by management reporting requirements. PPS was developed in 1996 and has been fully operational since January 1997. Two major insights are discussed in this paper: the implications of supporting the scheduling task versus work sequence generation, and the software design requirements for evolutionary change as the software is used in an ever-changing situation.