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System design and development methods need to be contextualized to the specific needs. Most developing countries are characterized by low economies and infrastructure, complex and heterogeneous culture. In these countries software development is characterized by big differences in education and livelihood. Culture has impacts in ICT development and use. Discount usability methods are lightweight methods...
User centered design (UCD) provides principles and activities for improving usability. However, traditional UCD methods lack considering the context of users in low income, culturally diverse settings and where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development is at its infant stage. Software development in low and medium income countries like Ethiopia is characterized by big difference in...
Usability and user centered design (UCD) are central to software development. In developing countries, the gap between IT development and the local use situation is larger than in western countries. However, usability is neither well addressed in software practice nor at the policy making level in Ethiopia. Software practitioners focus on functional requirements, meeting deadlines and budget. The...
The performance of an enterprise network is affected not only by its protocol specification, its communication channel, design capacity and architecture of the firewall but also by its implementation and traffic management. Firewall is a perimeter security solution that is useful for addressing network traffic. It introduces a single point through which all traffic passes and as a result it creates...
In organizational environment, user requirements are key system aspects that need to be realized in the system-to-be context. Aiming to support transformational development, organizations insist to acquire software business applications that satisfy business goals and processes strategically. A software product quality for an organization depends on how well it fits to the organizational goals and...
Requirements elicitation is a collaborative process that needs both domain and system experts' attention to deal human and organizational aspects. Collaboration helps to build shared understanding about a system's environment or contextual situation where a new information system intends to be a part. Lack of structured organizational knowledge representation and in depth understanding of organizational...
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