Abstract To satisfy the need for analytical data in development of digital services, many organizations use warehouse, and, more recently, lake architectures. These architectures have traditionally been accompanied by centralized organizational models, where a single team or department has responsible gathering, transforming, and giving access to data. However, such models presuppose stability ...

Both Agile Software Development (ASD) and Global Software Development (GSD) are 21 century trends in the software industry. Many studies are reported in the literature wherein software companies have applied an agile method or practice GSD. Given that effort estimation plays a remarkable role in software project management, how do companies perform effort estimation when they use agile method i...

Information systems development has always been a focal point of IS research. The most widely understood traditional methods for developing information systems are based on the “waterfall” life cycle model. Recently, agile methods have drawn increasing attention from IS practitioners and researchers worldwide, as a response to the shortcomings of the traditional methods. However, the impact of ...

While an acute, continuous focus on customer needs is often cited as a key benefit of agile approaches, very little research has examined the customer focus construct in an agile project environment, or looked at the implications or recommendations for project managers. We draw on contemporary theories on customer focus to develop a framework for understanding customer focus in an agile project...

Studies of more than eight thousand information systems (IS) projects revealed that most project failures involve people problems. Five of the top six reasons for project failure are rooted in communication problems between the development teams and the customer. Agile software development methods seek to address this challenge by relying on people and their creativity rather than on processes....

Before any of the current “agile” development methods, Earned Value Management provided information for planning and controlling complex projects by measuring how much “value” was produced for a given cost in a period of time. One shortcoming of an agile development method is its inability to forecast the future cost and schedule of the project beyond the use of “yesterdays weather” metrics. Th...