Determining User Requirements for a Personnel Information System Using Prototyping Methodology: the Case of the Agricultural Development Corporation (a.d.c.)

Abstract

This study was undertaken to determine user requirements for a personnel information system using the prototyping methodology. The research framework was a case study and the organisation studied was the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC). ADC is a parastatal body with plans to computerise all its operations within the next three years. Software prototyping was done uSlng the dBase programming

language. Three versions on the prototype were made, incorporating

comments made at each revision by the ADC Personnel

personne 1.

Department

The experlences ln uSlng the software prototyping methodology

were documented.