In Search of Information Systems Development Theory: a Framework to Understand Agile Software Development in Practice

The field of information systems development (ISD) is still not well understood and suffers from a lack of sustainable theories which are firmly based on research of ISD practice. This is also true for agile software development (ASD). In this paper we provide an integrated framework to support a theoretical understanding that allows both for a broad view on ISD practice in general and for a specific view on ASD. We demonstrate the framework in a case study of an ASD project in a large German public service organization and we discuss the identified development practices with regard to a theoretical foundation of ASD and ISD.