ISD THEMES

1. People themes

1.1. Participation

1.2. End-user computing

1.3. Expert systems

1.4. Knowledge management

1.5. Customer orientation

1.6. Requirements

1.7. Adv

1.7.1. ,better products to customer, greater functionality ,End user involvement

1.8. DisAdv

1.8.1. Cost, a lot of resources and time

2. Engineering and construction theme

2.1. Legacy themes

2.2. Software engineering

2.3. Automated tools

2.4. Method engineering

2.5. Component development

2.6. Security issues

2.7. Database management

2.8. Data warehouse and data mining

2.9. Adv

2.9.1. Revenue and products

2.10. DisAdv

2.10.1. Resources and time

3. External development

3.1. Application packages

3.2. Open source software

3.3. Enterprise resource planning

3.4. Outsourcing and offshoring

3.5. Adv

3.5.1. Tried and tested= less stressful, Cheaper!

3.6. DisAdv

3.6.1. No support and end user plan

4. Organization Themes

4.1. Systems theory

4.2. Information systems strategy

4.3. Business process re-engineering

4.4. Information systems planning

4.5. Stages of growth

4.6. Flexibility

4.7. Project Managment

4.8. Adv

4.8.1. better understanding, better planning,better products, greater functionality ,flexibility ,better organization of project and effective management

4.9. DisAdv

4.9.1. Cost, a lot of resources and time

5. Modeling themes

5.1. Modeling

5.2. Process modeling

5.3. Data Modeling

5.4. Object Modeling

5.5. Adv

5.5.1. better understanding , proof of concept, holistic comprehension of problem, and referral models when building to further explain and compare to

5.6. DisAdv

5.6.1. Time, cost, incorrect or misleading models, and rigid structure of implementation

5.7. dsf

6. Software

6.1. Evolutionary development

6.2. Prototyping

6.3. RAD

6.4. Agile development

6.5. Web based development

6.6. Adv

6.6.1. Modern , new fast

6.7. DisAdv

6.7.1. Bugs and problematic