Due to the relative success of agile methods in software development, the idea of having agile processes started to be tested in other areas, for example, agile business process development. This trend already reached the research community and there have appeared some materials that suggest using agility in research projects. Analysis of these suggestions, however, shows that they do not go be...

There are well established paradigms for information systems development but the methods used for Information Systems Development (ISD) have not been tied to most of these paradigms. Researchers have attempted to document the assumptions underlying different paradigms with the goal of making systems developers become aware of the assumptions and beliefs that they employ for a system development...

This research article reports on those factors project team members perceive as leading to systems development success. The amount of perceived impact of environmental variables, task variables and personal characteristics of project team members on systems success was explored. Results demonstrate that project team members are concerned with group process issues as well as with technical issue...

Organizations are investing heavily in information technology. To reap the true benefits from the technology, managers want to ensure that employees are using the technology to complete their daily tasks. There is a compelling need to assess the success of IS and IS applications and this has been a very popular but challenging topic of IS research. Numerous models of IS success and their extens...

Keeping an up-to-date overview of the knowledge and skills available in an organization is a difficult task. Looking at this problem we propose the use of data, that already exists in the organization’s information systems, as a means to keep user knowledge profiles up to date. To extract the required information from these information systems, we suggest the use of process mining. We illustrat...

This paper presents a brief historical account of the unorthodox design of an educational program for information systems development. The design and development of this program was initiated in 1977 at the University College of Östersund, today the Mid Sweden University. The presented account provides a description of the somewhat unusual context of this initiative, which was regarded as a wea...

Globalization spurred the rise of virtual software development teams. The complexity of managing a virtual team is rooted in the diverse cultural makeup of the team. Research increasingly recognizes that culture has significant implications for information systems. We propose in this study that the success of virtual software development team is influenced by cultural intelligence, a recent con...

In recent literature, many authors argue that “Web development” is new and different. The arguments are, however, both debatable and debated, and often it is neither clear what is meant by Web development, nor what it is supposed to be different from. Often-suggested special characteristics of Web development do not seem special after all. I present a model describing four archetypical perspect...

An explicit manipulation of business rules in information systems development (ISD) is an old domain. There were many attempts in the last two decades to define how the rules should be dealt with throughout the ISD activities. Despite many results that have been achieved, several questions regarding business rule manipulation within ISD remain unresolved and present challenges for future resear...

Despite much academic interest, little is really known about information systems development and the use of systems development methodologies. There has been little evaluation of methodologies in use and only limited research into their selection, adaptation and use, in practice. This paper relates theoretical work to empirical studies on these issues and discusses the implications for research...