TY - JOUR
AU - Dearnley, Peter
AB - Book Reviews Edited by TONY CORNFORD an academic treatise on systems theory. The ideas and Evolutionary Systems Development: A Practical Guide examples are eminently practical and should find favour to the Use of Prototyping within a Structured Systems with practical systems developers. Methodology The body of the text is divided into four main parts. JOHN C. CRINNION The first part provides the academic and practical justi- Pitman Publishing, London, 1991. 369 pp. £19.99 fication for the approach taken. It also provides an ISBN 0 273 03260 7 overview of the method. The second part covers the Systemscraft approach to business analysis. It uses func- The title of this work points to a conflict in choosing tional analysis and data analysis to build up models and using a systems development method. One of the of the system and shows how these cross-refer to pro- appeals of structured methods is the rigour and confor- vide a checking mechanism. The third part introduces mity brought to the process of systems development. prototyping. It is used in the design process to build a This helps to make the process more teachable and series of initial versions of parts of the system. These manageable, 
TI - Evolutionary Systems Development: A Practical Guide to the Use of Prototyping within a Structured Systems Methodology
JF - European Journal of Information Systems
DO - 10.1057/ejis.1992.9
DA - 1992-05-01
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SP - 363
EP - 364
VL - 1
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
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