CPR

The assumptions one makes about people and their roles within organizations have great impact on the interpersonal relationships within the organization and on its work product.

Within the data processing environment are established career ladders which ...

A team is termed “synergistic” when the members working together are able to achieve results significantly beyond what could be expected from the same team members working relatively independently. Unfortunately, placing several employees into a work ...

The growth of the computer industry has created more diversity within jobs in the computer industry than any other industry. Each week there are new users with new types of applications in new environments. The systems analyst working in a small IBM ...

This report is the product of a series of component objectives in studying organizational behavior. It is composed from personal involvement in the consultants group at LBL, and from interviews of the other members of the group and the immediate ...

Ever since the first business computer was used to assist the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951, an enormous number of user projects have failed to materialize and have joined other “rusty” software projects in the computer junkyard. Thus, the history of ...

This paper describes an experience held at a government owned bank which called computer consultants to deal with their data processing problems one year ago. The bank received approximately five or six proposals and finally chose between two: ours (...

The user/analyst (u/a) interface is a critical variable in determining the successful development of computer based information systems (CBIS) efforts. A historical communications gap at the u/a interface continues to impact most CBIS definition efforts ...

The development of systems analysis as an approach for dealing with business problems preceded, to a large extent, wide-spread computerization. However, the systems analyst has historically shared in the growing fascination with technology. Indeed, the “...

System software development involves significant coordination problems. The coordination effort required to develop large operating systems can be more than 90% of the total effort (Unger, Walker, 1977), (Brooks, 1975), (Aron, 1969). A major factor in ...

The Project enviroment and human activities in developing a large scale software system are the key factors which determine the success of a project. Sequential life cycle management divides the entire development into separate phases. It is proposed ...

The purpose of this document is to provide a firm basis on which the Management Information System (MIS) function can move towards its goal within an urban or business environment. While the examples and experience on which the report is based have been ...

This is a report on six months' experience with a team programming approach to the internal DP projects at YOURDON inc. The major benefits we sought from the team approach were reliability of the product and continuity of development and maintenance ...

Because the complexity and sophistication of computer systems continue to increase, more and more areas of critical importance to the Company's viability are encompassed in the Data Processing domain. As this happens, special demands are made of D.P. ...

The effective structuring of programming teams must be viewed as a managerial problem of organizational design. Finding individuals who are skilled in the techniques necessary for a programming task is only a partial solution to this problem. A ...

The need for tight project control has long been recognized within the Department of Defense (DOD). Obtaining the greatest possible return on the contract dollar has been the goal of project officers. In the area of software development, interest in ...

Human aspects are an essential element in the software production cycle. This has been widely recognized and several proposals such as the “chief programmer team” have proved their effectiveness as methodologies to produce high quality software at a ...

One of the classic problems confronting the data processing industry is how to develop the major new system rather than perpetuate the piecemeal approach to satisfying organizational data processing needs and desires. Even when data processing ...

In his paper, “Structured Programming,” (Rome NATO Conference, October, 1969), Edsger Dijkstra explains that his concern is with “intrinsically large programs” and that “the leading question (is whether it is) possible to increase our programming ...

Peer review techniques can be useful tools for supplementing programmer education, improving cooperation and communication within programming teams, and providing programmer self-evaluation. This paper will explore the benefits of peer review for ...

This paper reports some results from a survey of about thirty practicing database administration teams in U.S. organizations of varying sizes and commitment to database technology. It stresses how the various recommendations regarding DBA implementation ...

Increasing attention has been focused on team management as a better way to improve software production. Nevertheless, most of the experiences described in recent publications to support the present trends in software engineering, deal mainly with large ...

Until eighteen months ago the Missouri Pacific Railroad had special groups to perform each major function of the system development effort for online, realtime systems. Under this organization there were 140 professional data processors (managers, ...

A great deal of time and money has been and will continue to be spent in developing software. Much effort has gone into the generation of various software development methodologies that are meant to improve both the process and the product ([MYER, 75], [...