Year
2001
Abstract
AIMAS is a material control & accounting software developed by Argonne National Laboratory and Ukrainian MC&A experts for use as a facility level system. This paper details our difficulties and triumphs in working to develop software for Ukraine that actually gets used! The paper discusses such issues as cultural barriers, picking the right software development approach, lowtech vs. high-tech approaches, motivating target users to get involved in the development process, software compatibility issues from supporting multiple languages and multiple operating systems, in-country support and training, motivating target users to commit to deploy, and sustainability issues.