Reusability-Based Strategy for Development of Information Systems: Implementation Experience of a Bank.

Author List: Apte, Uday; Sankar, Chetan S.; Thakur, Meru; Turner, Joel E.;
MIS Quarterly, 1990, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 421-433.
The article discusses the experience of a large bank in implementing reusability-based strategy for development of information systems. The author explains that the design and implementation was performed in two stages. The first stage was to build a prototype to research the feasibility and attractiveness of reusability concept for the bank. The second was to evaluate its subsequent implementation using a library of reusable entities and a programmer's workbench. The author states that the implementation experience continued that applying the reusability concept to all stages of the system's life cycle results in both strategic and operational benefits. The article says that the bank saved over $1.5 million because of the library of reusable entities embedded within the programmer workbench.
Keywords: Software reusability; programmer productivity; programmer workbench; banking systems; information systems development; information systems strategy
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#61 0.178 reuse results anchoring potential strategy assets leading reusability incentives impact bias situations effect similarity existing extraction reusable improvement necessary enhancing
#65 0.161 article information author discusses comments technology paper presents states explains editor's authors issue focuses topics include suggests systems role editorial
#90 0.150 development life cycle prototyping new stages routines stage design experiences traditional time sdlc suggested strategies rapid effort integrated needs techniques
#287 0.146 design systems support development information proposed approach tools using engineering current described developing prototype flexible built architecture environment integrated designing
#119 0.123 implementation systems article describes management successful approach lessons design learned technical staff used effort developed organization experiences large managing discusses
#200 0.079 banking bank multilevel banks level individual implementation analysis resistance financial suggests modeling group large bank's services levels national data early
#221 0.066 competence experience versus individual disaster employees form npd concept context construct effectively focus functionalities front-end knowledge-intensive stage explores set definition