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3. The Design Cycle

Author : Roel J. Wieringa

Published in: Design Science Methodology for Information Systems and Software Engineering

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

A design science project iterates over the activities of designing and investigating. The design task itself is decomposed into three tasks, namely, problem investigation, treatment design, and treatment validation. We call this set of three tasks the design cycle, because researchers iterate over these tasks many times in a design science research project.

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Metadata
Title
The Design Cycle
Author
Roel J. Wieringa
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43839-8_3

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