Open AccessA Non Trivial Pursuit: - systems development as cooperation
Author(s) -
Susanne Bødker,
Joan Greenbaum
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
daimi pb
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-9316
pISSN - 0105-8517
DOI - 10.7146/dpb.v17i268.6551
Subject(s) - work (physics) , outcome (game theory) , focus group , project management , focus (optics) , knowledge management , process management , computer science , project management triangle , engineering management , sociology , engineering , systems engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , mathematics , mathematical economics , optics , anthropology
In this paper we present some of the results of an empirical investigation of systems development project work. These results are the outcome of our attempts to ''listen to'' a project group developing a large computer application for a bank. It has been our primary purpose to catch the informal sides of project work, and this paper will focus on two aspects: Project work as group work as a means of creating something in common, this something being a computer application which will be used in a use-setting outside the project group. A comparison of our findings with different understandings of systems development project work found in literature is included, as is a discussion of our methodology.