Evaluation of an Office Analysis Methodology

We have developed a model of the office that describes semi-structured office work. This model underlies an office analysis methodology and an office-specification language. An evaluation of the usefulness and practicality of the model, the specification language, and the methodology has dhown that...

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Main Authors: Sutherland, Juliet, Sirbu, Marvin
Published: 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149049
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description We have developed a model of the office that describes semi-structured office work. This model underlies an office analysis methodology and an office-specification language. An evaluation of the usefulness and practicality of the model, the specification language, and the methodology has dhown that the model is clearly a useful approach to understanding offices, the specification language is interesting but not as useful in practice as we had hoped, and the methodology is useful but could be improved. We have developed a new methodology that addresses the issue of diagnosis as well as description. This new methodology is still being evaluated, but early results show that it is as useful for training new analysts as the old methodology.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1490492023-03-30T03:25:14Z Evaluation of an Office Analysis Methodology Sutherland, Juliet Sirbu, Marvin We have developed a model of the office that describes semi-structured office work. This model underlies an office analysis methodology and an office-specification language. An evaluation of the usefulness and practicality of the model, the specification language, and the methodology has dhown that the model is clearly a useful approach to understanding offices, the specification language is interesting but not as useful in practice as we had hoped, and the methodology is useful but could be improved. We have developed a new methodology that addresses the issue of diagnosis as well as description. This new methodology is still being evaluated, but early results show that it is as useful for training new analysts as the old methodology. 2023-03-29T14:22:45Z 2023-03-29T14:22:45Z 1983-03 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/149049 10029851 MIT-LCS-TM-239 application/pdf
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