Information systems design methodologies

The advantages of discussing topics in conference are many: they bring together individuals from around the world with a common interest, and the attempts to attack a standard test case in different ways highlights the similarities and differences among the methodologies employed. Discussion of these results helps the various approaches to converge, leading to some consensus. These consensus views benefit practitioners who are involved in designing information systems. The proceedings contained herein include a number of feature analyses of the methodologies included in the first proceedings, from the 1982 conference.