TY - GEN
T1 - Developing user requirements for trans-national government information systems
AU - Seltsikas, Philip
AU - Papas, Nikolaos
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper presents our participant-performer case-based experience in eliciting user requirements for the development of a pan-European, trans-national government information system (TN-GIS). It is widely recognized that a significant challenge for Information Systems (IS) developers is the creation of systems specifications that align with user requirements. Many IS failures have been attributed to the mismatch between user requirements and what is actually produced. Specifying Information Systems (IS) through user requirements elicitation has always been challenging. In this paper we focus on Trans-national Government Information Systems which have their own 'special complications'. Our findings to date show that the development TN-GISs, which can involve hundreds or even thousands of 'stakeholders', require a blend of traditional user requirements elicitation methods, as well as several additional efforts which include rapid prototyping, political consultation, consensus building
AB - This paper presents our participant-performer case-based experience in eliciting user requirements for the development of a pan-European, trans-national government information system (TN-GIS). It is widely recognized that a significant challenge for Information Systems (IS) developers is the creation of systems specifications that align with user requirements. Many IS failures have been attributed to the mismatch between user requirements and what is actually produced. Specifying Information Systems (IS) through user requirements elicitation has always been challenging. In this paper we focus on Trans-national Government Information Systems which have their own 'special complications'. Our findings to date show that the development TN-GISs, which can involve hundreds or even thousands of 'stakeholders', require a blend of traditional user requirements elicitation methods, as well as several additional efforts which include rapid prototyping, political consultation, consensus building
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2009.157
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2009.157
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:63349091842
SN - 9780769534503
T3 - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS
BT - Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS
T2 - 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS
Y2 - 5 January 2009 through 9 January 2009
ER -