This paper reports the experience gained in software engineering group work within the framework of a fourteen week master’s level graduate course on information systems development. Teams of three to five members developed web-based application systems using the Distributed eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology. A case study is proposed to understand the issues encountered by students during th...

In this paper we present the information life cycle and analyze the importance of managing the corporate application portfolio across this life cycle. The approach presented here corresponds not just to the extension of the traditional information system development life cycle. This approach is based in the generic life cycle. In this paper it is proposed a model of an information system life c...

The concept of mindfulness has garnered increasing attention during the last decade. Initially proposed within the scope of Information Systems (IS) research as a means of creating a deeper knowledge foundation for decision making regarding information technology (IT) innovations, it soon became broadly applied throughout IS research. To gain a better understanding of the evolved diversity of t...

European Journal of Information Systems (2009) 18, 281–284. doi:10.1057/ejis.2009.27 Agile systems development methods emerged as a response to the inability of previous plan-driven approaches to handle rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2002). Originating from the so-called ‘light-weight’ methods and promoted through the publication of the Agile Manifesto (2001), the agile method family...

background: accurate and timely information and communication are vital to adequately prepare individual health organizations for emergency events. the current article investigated health-related communication and information systems for emergency management in iran. methods: the present study was conducted in 2009 with a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach. simple random purposeful sam...

This research is included in information system development research. The output product of this an Accounting Information System. stages used study adapt the waterfall model from Pressman. Implementation web-based using MySQL database on PHPMyAdmin. one Database Management System (DBMS). backend accounting non-profit organization focuses logic starting input, process and output. Input financia...

Abstract Background: Information Systems Development (ISD) is responsible for designing and implementing information systems that support organizational strategy, leveraging business models processes. Several perspectives on this activity can be found in the literature, addressing – often an undifferentiated manner approaches, lifecycles, methodologies, process models, among others. Objectives:...