Prototyping a Useless Design Practice: What, Why & How?

Design Science: Why, What and How

The Design Science journal is a designed product, maybe also a designed productservice system. After all the insights, experiences, data collections and scientific analyses have played their role, bringing a design into existence remains an act of faith. This journal is no exception. It is a collective act of faith by a large number of people who have put themselves forth as authors, readers, e...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Why Don't They Practice What Ee Preach?

One of the most intractable problems in software is getting engineers to consistently use effective methods. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has worked on this problem for a number of years and has developed effective methods for addressing it. This paper describes these methods and shows what they have accomplished with several hundred students and working engineers. After first descr...

Why don’t we practice what we teach

The development process used by academic researchers often seems unsystematic. A Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is seldom considered, commenting is scarce, and external documentation consists of erasure marks left on whiteboards. Configuration management is paid lip-service, but is not standard practice. This paper examines reasons behind the apparent large-scale non-adoption of softwar...

نقدی بر کتاب History: What and Why?

نوشتار حاضر به نقد و بررسی کتاب تاریخ: چیستی و چرایی آن، نوشته بِوِرلی ساوث گیت اختصاص دارد. در این مقاله نشان داده ایم که این اثر نه یک کتاب اجتهادی و نوآورانه، که صرفاً یک متن درسی تألیفی است در باب یکی از مهم‌ترین پرسش­های فلسفه تاریخ، یعنی این پرسش که آیا تاریخ از عینیت برخوردار است یا نه؟ مولف به خوبی توانسته است دیدگاه متقدمان و متأخران، یعنی متفکران باستان و متفکران بعد از عصر روشنگری را تب...