 Arnie Lind, then a Senior Systems Engineer at IBM Canada in Regina, Saskatchewan created and named joint application design, in 1974.This was an improvement on existing methods, which entailed application developers spending months learning the specifics of a particular department or job function, and then developing an application for the function or department.In addition to significant development backlog delays, this process resulted in applications taking years to develop, and often not being fully accepted by the application users.