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Activity Patterns In Design Processes Of It Standards, Sandeep Purao, Karthikeyan Umapathy, John Bagby
Activity Patterns In Design Processes Of It Standards, Sandeep Purao, Karthikeyan Umapathy, John Bagby
Karthikeyan Umapathy
Contemporary IT standards are designed, not selected. Their design enacts a complex process that brings together a coalition of players. We examine the design of the SOAP standard to discover activity patterns in this design process. The paper reports these patterns as a precursor to developing a micro-level process theory for designing IT standards.