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Data Flow Diagram Use to Plan Empirical Research Projects
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Author(s): Jens Mende (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 10
Source title:
Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Antonio Cartelli (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy) and Marco Palma (University of Cassino, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-845-1.ch020
ISBN13: 9781599048451
ISBN10: 1599048450
EISBN13: 9781599048468
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Abstract
Yourdon and Constantine (1979), De Marco (1979), and Gane and Sarson (1979) introduced the data flow diagram (DFD) more than a quarter of a century ago, as a systems planning tool that is particularly useful in the fields of software engineering and information systems development. But the DFD is not restricted to those fields. Empirical research projects are systems too (which consist of interconnected sources, data, collection processes, files, analysis processes, knowledge, and users), and those systems are similar to information systems. This article reports how the DFD can also be useful in planning empirical research projects. This finding should be advantageous to research planners, individual researchers, research advisors, research supervisors, or research managers. And it should be especially advantageous to research planners in information and communication technology (ICT) because they know DFDs already, so they can get the planning advantages with little or no extra learning effort. This finding was obtained from two research projects. The first was planned without the aid of a DFD and failed. It was then replanned with a DFD and redone in a second project, which succeeded.
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