Developing a Language for Participation - Project Language as a Meeting Place for Users and Developers in Participatory Software Development by Yvonne Dittrich
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During participatory development different professional groups with different professional languages meet. They have to communicate about the future software in a profound way. To enable that, a common way to talk about the future software has to be developed, relating concepts of the use context and concepts of software development. An example of the development of such a project language is given and the relevance of this for design is argued for. To support the development of a project language a toolkit is provided in which methods are compiled that respects the creative side of ordinary language.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998