Contents:
Volume 6 No. 2, 1999 Darek M. Eriksson and Volker Wulf: Self-Organising Social Systems: A Challenge to Computer Supported Cooperative Work Full Text Christiane Floyd: Software Development Process: Some Reflections on its Cultural, Political and Ethical Aspects from a Constructivist Epistemology Point of View Abstract Katharina
Just-Hahn and Thomas Herrmann: Step-by-Step: A Method to Support Self-organized
Co-ordination
Michael Paetau: Can Virtual Enterprises Build up an Own Identity? Abstract Volker
Wulf: Evolving Cooperation when Introducing Groupware:
Kurt Dauer Keller: Sociotechnics and the Structuring of Meaning: Beyond the Idea of Autopoietic Social Systems Abstract The artist of this issue is Bruno Kjaer
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Some Reflections on its Cultural, Political and Ethical Aspects from a Constructivist Epistemology Point of View By Christiane Floyd Abstract: Design in software development is viewed,
from a constructivist epistemological perspective, as an insight building
process linking the worlds of application, of methods, and technology.
Design unfolds as a web of distinctions and decisions constructing at the
same time the problem and a fitting solution. Design is evaluated based
on the coherence of the decisions taken and their viability. Closure and
self-organization arise from the feedback of evaluation on design, leading
to revisions and further distinctions and decisions. Software design is
specific in that it starts from operational form in different areas of
human practice and provides auto-operational form to be re-embedded in
human practice. Dialogical design seeks deeper insights by taking account
of and crossing different perspectives. The consequences of this view on
software development methods are briefly discussed.
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