Problems of Implementation

Abstract

The term ‘implementation’ in data processing is used to cover a variety of different meanings, ranging on the one hand from the simple conversion of an existing computer application to a revised or extended application, to the complete changeover from one type of hardware to another, on the other hand. In practice the problems to be overcome tend to be much the same and the differences are of degree rather than principle. By ‘implementation’ the authors of this book mean the process of converting the system design into an operational system. This chapter outlines some of the major problems which arise in this important phase of systems work, i.e. the generalised case of ‘getting the system to work’, and describes measures which may be used to minimise these problem areas.