Discursive Development Order and Local Informal Practices. A Development Project in Northern Ethiopia

The person in the detaching stage learns to adapt the procedure to varying circumstances. She is now more interested in learning the ten alternative procedures, in learning when each is most applicable and when each breaks down. A large-scale technique breakdown of this sort occurred in our industry when large software contracting firms, finely tuned to developing software using Information Engineering (IE) architectures, had to begin delivering object-oriented software. After years of unsuccessfully trying to adapt IE methods, they had to develop completely new development methodologies, often regressing through quite unstructured development before discovering new structures to support the new projects. Most of these organizations now have two methodologies, one for IE and another for object-oriented (OO) development. In the third, fluent stage, it becomes irrelevant to the practitioner whether she is following any particular technique or not. Her knowledge has become integrated throughout a thousand thoughts and actions ...»