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User and Developer - User Systems Development Using a Spreadsheet Program
Abstract
In the early days of computers, expertise was needed in order to use computers. As IT tools have become more powerful and user friendly, more and more people have been able to use computers and programs as tools when carrying out working tasks. Nowadays it is even possible for people without special IT training to construct Information Systems (IS) that only IT specialists could have done some years ago. In this paper the conditions and effects of User Systems Development (USD) using a Spreadsheet Program (SP) are discussed. USD is performed by a User-Developer (UD), a person who acts both as a user and a systems developer. A typical feature of a UD is that he has a good knowledge of the business and the work related to the Information System (IS) in question, which is called the User Developed Application (UDA).
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