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Better Support for User Participation Using Business Rules Approach?

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User participation in requirement analysis (RA) is necessary for IS quality and user acceptance. A prerequisite for meaningful user participation is that the coming users also understand the requirements. This understanding is made difficult by abstract and “technical” modelling languages and notations which require learning and experience. The Business Rules Approach (BRA) builds on a notion of Business Rules (BR) formulated in natural language sentences aimed at the business audience; hence BRA should make user participation easy. This is tested in a workshop with a vaccination expert (VE) in a project on designing a BR oriented, digital service for health care workers (HCWs). The results indicate that natural language BRs in RA really are easily understood and intuitive for the VE and that quality checking BRs requires no special learning.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.ics.lu.se/en/research/projects/vacsam.

  2. 2.

    A child here is a person in the age of between 1 and 17 years.

  3. 3.

    Separate statistics for children is not available.

  4. 4.

    http://www.who.int/immunization_monitoring/en/globalsummary/ScheduleResult.cfm.

  5. 5.

    A country, which share borders and have a long and common history with Sweden, and which in many ways, could be considered as quite similar to Sweden.

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    According HCWs, the pinpricks should be kept to a minimum.

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    The two largest country councils in Sweden.

  8. 8.

    (1) Define goal and approach; (2) Prepare for workshop; (3) Conduct the workshop session; (4) Pursue immediate follow-up activities; (5) Follow up with consolidation and research; (6) Review.

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    The Swedish pharmaceutical industry’s published list of drugs.

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The VacSam project is sponsored by VINNOVA.

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  1. Department of Informatics, Lund School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Nicklas Holmberg & Odd Steen

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  1. Fac. Mathematics & Physics, Dept. Software Engineering, Charles University Praha, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha 1, 118 00, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Pokorny

  2. Dept. Information Technologies, Attn. Prof. Jiri Vorisek, Prague University of Economics, Nam. W. Churchilla 4, Praha, 130 67, Czech Republic

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  3. Fac. Mathematics & Physics, Charles University, Praha, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha 1, 118 00, Czech Republic

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  4. College of Business & Economics, Dept. Information Technology &, Boise State University, Univesity Dr. 1910, Boise, 83725-1615, Idaho, USA

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  5. Fac. Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, 3800, Victoria, Australia

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  6. Dept. Accountancy & Finance, National University of Ireland, University Road, Galway, Ireland

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    Michael Lang

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Holmberg, N., Steen, O. (2011). Better Support for User Participation Using Business Rules Approach?. In: Pokorny, J., et al. Information Systems Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9790-6_24

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