Participatory design is a major orienting position in contemporary debates about design methods. In my own areas of research -human-computer interaction and computersupported co-operative work, it has transformed thinking about the role of users in the software development process. However, participatory design refers to a high-level feature of design methods that can be implemented in myriad w...

IS projects continue to present a problematic endeavor for organizations. A high percentage of IS projects fail to meet efficiency metrics of on time, on budget, and on initial specifications. Even when projects meet these efficiency metrics, recent research and experience show that they fail to deliver business benefits. This paper presents an appreciative enquiry of a successful IS project th...

Autonomic computing is gradually becoming accepted as a viable approach to achieving self-management in systems and networks, with the goal of lessening the impact of the complexity crisis on the computing industry. The authors propose the integration of high level selforganisation features into an Application Directed Adaptive Framework (ADAF), an autonomic-oriented software development proces...

The majority of commercial requirements management tools tend to be costly, document-driven and used by large organizations undertaking traditional forms of software development. While they are not immediately in the spirit of the agile philosophy, which advocates live dialogue over documentation and encourages small teams of developers to do the simplest thing possible to satisfy a requirement...

Agile software development methods have been suggested as useful in many situations and contexts. However, only few (if any) experiences are available regarding the use of agile methods in embedded domain where the hardware sets tight requirements for the software. This development domain is arguably far away from the agile home ground. This paper explores the possibility of using agile develop...