Abstract
It is well known that information systems development projects can be and often are the subject of political dispute within organizations. Indeed many project failures are caused not by technical problems but rather organizational ones. This paper briefly describes a theoretical model of the ownership and politcal issues surrounding information systems development and then, in more detail, a group support software package called Info*Warder that is being developed to try to identify in which areas ownership and political difficulties might surface at the project proposal stage.