This is a user guide is in two parts, this one for Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and another manuscript for Nominal Group Technique (NGT). This was Warfield's first pass at trying to write a User Guide for the Rodger's software that would be more in sync with the actual progress of an IM session. It is written for first-time users, who might not be experienced with using the software. He started this project in December 1996, as a forerunner to taking the BRIMS software to Ghana, for a tryout there during the January 1997 workshops.

The term "BRIMS" was invented by Warfield to distinguish the "academic version" of the User Guide which he wrote from the commercial version which came from Canada. BRIMS is an acronym that represents "Bill Rodger's Interactive Management Software." Bill Rodger is the chief executive of a Canadian corporation called DESYMA, and the commercial name for the software package is "Synergistic Solutions." DESYMA is not responsible for any errors in this document. NOTE: THE GMU FINDING AID LISTS NOT ONE BUT TWO OF THIS TITLE, PARTS 1 AND 2 IN BOX 11, FOLDERS 7 AND 8. AND A THIRD TITLE SUPPORTING NOMINAL GROUP TECHNIQUE, MAKING THREE IN ALL, IN FOLDERS 7, 8, AND 9 OF Box 11. I am not sure there were three, my records seem to say only two of these manuals. I don't have them digitized anyway, so can't check it out. Someday I might find the computer files for these manuals and can be more precise. I haven't gone into the old compact disk boxes yet and who knows what will turn up there!

R.w. Aug 18, 2013