Lecture 8:Reflective development
Jarmo Sarkkinen
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Perspective shift
Individualin a team
The interaction view
Developersas reflectivepractitioners
Developers,who are they...?
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Indicators of orientations
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Lessons learned”...user orientation is positively and strongly related to communication skill and business skill”
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”...political orientation is positively and strongly related to political skill
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”...technical orientation is positively and strongly associated with technical skills”
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”...technical orientation is negatively associated with communication skills”
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”...political orientation is negatively associated with technical skills
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Dominant orientations in ICWPT?
Approx. two-thirds of the respondents apply only one orientation!!!
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Why is a blend of IS professional orientations desperately neededin any successful development team?
Any conclusions?
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Reflective systems development(Mathiassen 1998)
• Lesson 1• Lesson 2• Lesson 3• Lesson 4• Lesson 5• Lesson 6• Lesson 7• Lesson 8
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Lesson 1
Reflection-in-action provides a useful understanding of systems development practice
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Lesson 2
Methods are primarily frameworks for learning
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Lesson 3
Improving practice requires an experimental attitude and an appreciation of the involved stakeholder groups
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Lesson 4
Sustainable project management traditions are fundamental in successful improvement strategies
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Lesson 5
Action research brings relevance to the research process while supplementary approaches improve the validity and reliability of the research results
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Lesson 6
Dialectics is a useful framework for understanding practice based on different reference disciplines
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Lesson 7
Combining interpretations with interventions and normative design suggestions increases the relevance of the research
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Lesson 8
Research and teaching are relevant practices for learning about systems development
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Education
Producers ofknowledge,researchers...
Teachers,educators,andconsultants
Designers,developers ofpractices
Clients
is reflective
how-to how-to how-to
is reflective is reflective is reflective
”reality””reality” ”reality”
gives a”rolemodel”
gives a”rolemodel”
gives a”rolemodel”
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Assignment
1) Discuss practical benefits of being reflective, and reflective systems development in general.
2) What could reflective systems developers learn from the lessons of this course?
