WISDM

The WISDM approach to building web-based information systems is described in the book "Developing Web Information Systems", which is authored by Richard Vidgen, Dave Avison, Bob Wood, and Trevor Wood-Harper, published by Butterworth Heinemann (2003). The book introduces a web-based IS development methodology – WISDM – that provides a framework for bringing together traditional systems development methods with web-based techniques to provide a rounded framework that runs from e-business strategic analysis through to implementation in software. The WISDM framework draws on established methods and techniques, thus building on existing best practice rather than adding yet another methodology to an already crowded market.

WISDM is a framework and methodology for the development of web-based information systems. The framework recognizes that a methodology in practice emerges from the triad of situation, human agents, and methods.

Indicative methods for WISDM include:

Organizational Analysis: Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), e-business strategy
Information Analysis: Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Work Design: ETHICS, Participative Design, Web Quality (WebQual)
Technical Design: UML plus physical design as dicated by the target implementation environment