Collaborating on Multiparty Information Systems Development Projects: A Collective Reflection-in-Action View

Collaborating on Multiparty Information Systems Development Projects: A Collective Reflection-in-Action View

Growth of business-to-consumer (B2C) applications such as electronic storefronts, catalogues, and customer support websites has drawn a great number of diverse stakeholders into the IS Development (ISD) practice. Marketing, strategy, and graphic design specialists have joined a variety of technical professionals and business stakeholders in developing B2C applications. Oftentimes, these profess...

Collaborative Practices in Information Systems Development: A Collective Reflection-in-Action Framework

With the growth of consumer-faced information systems (IS) applications, IS designers are increasingly moving from seeing their work as “capturing and automating requirements” to seeing it as “innovation in product development.” The new metaphor engenders organizational practices targeted at fostering innovation. One such practice is the creation of professionally and organizationally diverse d...

Controlling Information Systems Development Projects: The View from the Client

Dialectical Reflection in Information Systems Development

Reflection-in-action and Reflection-on-action*

Since the publication of Schon's (1983) book on the character and development of professional knowledge, our research has been directed at applying his theoretical position to the problem of how teachers acquire the knowledge of practice that allows them to teach as they do. Briefly, we have attempted to understand what lies behind the apparently simple notion that teachers learn to teach by te...