Friday 23 April 2010

tasty outcomes

Yesterday, the project team met to complete our programme evaluation. In our discussions, we summarised the outcomes of the project:

  • two examples of a prototype user-generated software system providing a requirements definition or specification for use in further work
  • provided a model of how simple software development principles can provide a system which non-specialists can deploy and maintain
  • an example of a sustainable development model, where non-technical end users can maintain and modify their own software
  • an example of how experimental software development, merely by happening, can catalyse institutional change in policy and process; the software development may not be part of the eventual solution, but if the original need is met by other processes/systems, it is a good outcome
  • we learnt that arts, social science and humanities departments often have strong technical skills!


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1 comment:

Jenny Mackness said...

Hi Laura and colleagues,

It is great to see your project coming to fruition. You must all be very pleased with the outcomes and the interest that you project has generated.

I'm looking forward to reading your final report.

Jenny