It would have been better to involve some end users at earlier stages of the system development

Lesson

ID	34
Has statement	It would have been better to involve some end users at earlier stages of the system development;
Has evidence	Sometimes researchers and developers do not have all the necessary practical experience to understand all the exigencies of the other actors involved in the system.
Has consequences	End users can suggest DSS contents and features closer to their needs. Moreover, their involvement may result in a higher acceptance and usage of the system.
Has recommendation for action	Ask actor categories to choose their representatives to participate in some early stage meetings and to test the first prototypes of the DSS.
Has domain	Participation, User interface and outputs
Has DSS development stage	Specification
Has decision stage	organization
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context	Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale	Forest level, Stand level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has goods and services dimension	Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker
Has country	Italy
Has reference
Has related DSS	SIPAFIT
Has related case	Italy-A comprehensive system for forest management planning in Trentino Province
Has related lesson
Has other relevant information	This requirement depends on the problem statement; some problems can be solved without neighbourhood interrelations. Some problems with neighbourhood interrelations, such as demanding a large area of interior conditions (no edge effects) tend to be large combinatorial problems.
Has working group theme	Dss development process, Participation
Has DSS development	It would have been better to involve some end users at earlier stages of the system development.Description of DSS development
Has decision support techniques	It would have been better to involve some end users at earlier stages of the system development.Decision support techniques
Has knowledge management processes	It would have been better to involve some end users at earlier stages of the system development.Knowledge management process
Has support for social participation	It would have been better to involve some end users at earlier stages of the system development.Support of social participation
Has actor perspective	Developer/Architect, Facilitator, User
Has researcher role
Has user role
Has developer role

Participation Early involvement DSS development