Computer Software Evaluation: Balancing User's Needs & Wants

by Dale Carpenter

“Computer Software Evaluation” tells you how to determine your specific ‘needs’ and ‘wants’ and how to compare multiple software packages. After surveying department managers about their needs, the IT department about software and hardware standards, the author value-ranked the needs and wants into functional requirements. Then software packages were reviewed to see if they met those requirements. Each step of this process is detailed, from user surveys, value ranking spreadsheets, a line item quote example to a management project proposal. Dale Carpenter is a librarian who has also been a construction worker, dj, short order cook and band roadie.

152 pages, Paperback

Published March 31, 2017

About the author

Dale Carpenter, J.D. (b. 1966) is is an American legal commentator, regular contributor to The Volokh Conspiracy, and Earl R. Larson Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, specializing in constitutional law. He was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Chicago Law Review while working on his doctoral degree, after receiving his B.A. in history from Yale. Since 2004, he has served as an editor of Constitutional Commentary.