Assessing the quality of the ‘TurnStormer’ thinkLet as a Collaboration Engineering building block for the Implementation of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act of South Africa

Abstract

This paper assesses the quality of the TurnStormer thinkLet as a building block for Collaboration Engineering for the Implementation of the Administrative Justice Act of South Africa. Although a complete research paper on its own, it constitutes a milestone in an ongoing exploratory study that commenced in 2005 and is to end in 2010. An assessment framework of the study as a whole was declared at its outset as being guided by the critical appraisal guidelines developed by Atkins and Sampson. However, the creation of the first thinkLet of the study in 2006, the TurnStormer thinkLet, required that it be assessed following some Collaboration Engineering design standards. Such standards were not available yet in the literature, but a completed doctoral study by Kolfschoten in December 2007 crystallised them and they are used in this paper to assess the quality of the designed TurnStormer ThinkLet as a Collaboration Engineering building block. The analysis shows that the TurnStormer thinkLet meets four of the five dimensions of quality of collaboration process design for Collaboration Engineering.