CRISP

Fellow Crispians and latent Crispians. We have all seen that many books and papers in conferences, though purporting to be about computerised information systems development, actually read as if ISD is an exercise in the sociological analysis of the business for which the information system is being developed. It is as if, instead of providing computing solutions to very real business problems, the system developer is expected to treat the business as a sick child with little understanding of what is good for it. Or perhaps to treat the business as a mind that is psychologically sick. It needs professional help to be psychoanalysed to be brought to the understanding that it doesn’t really want to carry on behaving in the way it has, and needs to be brought to sanity and healthy living.