Usability Evaluation of Method Handbook

In enterprise modelling and information systems development, methods contribute to systematic work processes and to improving the quality of modelling results. Information Demand Analysis (IDA) is a method, which recently was developed for the purpose of optimizing the information flow in the field of information logistics. In order to contribute to improvement of the IDA method, the focus of this paper is to evaluate the usability of the IDA method handbook. For this purpose, an approach for usability evaluation of the handbook is proposed and applied. The main contributions are (1) an approach how to apply the concept of usability when evaluating a method handbook, (2) experiences from using this approach in a real world case, and (3) recommendation for improving the IDA method handbook with respect to usability.