Some Comments on Constituents of Contemporary Information Systems Development Methodologies

Development of complex information processing systems in business organizations by interdisciplinary designing team requires specific guidelines — the methodologies, enabling the system developers to transform user’s needs into operating system accomplishing the assumed criteria. In the last two decades numerous information systems development methodologies (ISDMs) has been proposed. Their heterogeneity inclines one to comparisons suggesting the proper selection of tools for practitioners.The limited scope of this paper allows. only to signal certain chosen questions on this subject. After choracterization of the methodological diversity prerequisites, the general Classification of methodologies and specification of their constituents are presented. According to this pattern the introductory specification of solutions relevant to each component is brought forward. The particular emphasis is laid on choice of methods, techniques and computerized tools ibr pragmatic methodology.