Measuring user's role to assess organisation preparedness in a systems acquisition life cycle: a cognitive framework

Eliciting user requirements is important in software process models and in the context of Information Technology (IT) acquisition. This paper discusses issues related to user involvement and identifies measures of organisation's preparedness in IT acquisition life cycle through a framework through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). It discusses two organisations to support the framework.

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