Agility from First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development

Agility from First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development

A and use of agile methods has grown rapidly among the information systems development (ISD) community in recent years. Like most previous methods, the development and promotion of these methods have been almost entirely driven by practitioners and consultants, with little participation from the research community during the early stages of evolution. While these methods are now the focus of mo...

The Strategic Agility of Information Systems Outsourcing

An increasing number of firms are offshoring information systems (IS) services to developing countries because of the high availability of inexpensive information technology talents. The IS outsourcing can largely reduce human resource costs and increase business agility. Managerial, social and assessment factors have a strong influence on the accomplishment of business agility. This study prop...

Lessons in Agility From Internet-Based Development

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 2 / $ 1 7 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 2 I E E E In April 2000, the Internet bubble burst and the business world was brought back to reality, discovering that business fundamentals hadn’t changed. However, it isn’t so clear whether the fundamental rules of software development have changed. I worked as a software process consultant to two Internet startups during the boom— let’s call them ...

On Software Development Agility

As business and technology environments change at an unprecedented rate, software development agility to respond to changing user requirements has become increasingly critical for software development performance. Agile software development approaches, which emphasize sense-and-respond, self-organization, cross-functional teams, and continuous adaptation, have been adopted by an increasing numb...

Extending Software Project Agility with New Product Development Enterprise Agility