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Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory and Education

Volume 1

Editors: Chris Barry,Kieran Conboy, Michael Lang, , Gregory Wojtowski, Wita Wojtowski.

Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory and Education, Volumes 1 and 2, are the collected proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory and Education – ISD 2007 Conference, held in Galway, Ireland. It follows in the tradition of previous conferences in the series in exploring the connections between industry, research and education.

These proceedings represent ongoing reflections within the academic community on established information systems topics and emerging concepts, approaches and ideas. It is hoped that the papers herein contribute towards disseminating research and improving practice.

The conference tracks highlighted at the Sixteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2007) were:

  • Managing IS Development

  • Innovation in Information Systems Development

  • Enterprise Systems Development & Adoption

  • Public Information Systems Development

  • Agile and High-Speed Systems Development Methods

  • Information Systems Engineering

  • Business Systems Analysis & Design

  • Data and Information Modelling

  • ISD Education

  • ISD in Developing Nations

  • Legal and Administrative Aspects of ISD

  • Service Oriented Modelling and Semantic Web Technologies

Author(s): John McAvoy, Tom Butler (auth.), Wita Wojtkowski, Gregory Wojtkowski, Michael Lang, Kieran Conboy, Chris Barry (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer US
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 592
Tags: Database Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Business Information Systems; Computer Science, general; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
A Failure to Learn in a Software Development Team: The Unsuccessful Introduction of an Agile Method....Pages 1-13
Using Visual Risk Assessment to Uncover Subtle Team Performance Issues....Pages 15-23
Soft Systems Methodology: An Aid to Agile Development?....Pages 25-38
Methodology Usage by Virtual Information Systems Development Teams....Pages 39-50
Research of the Use of Agile Methodologies in the Czech Republic....Pages 51-64
Method Deployment in Small- and Medium-Sized Firms: Addressing the Organizational Context....Pages 65-77
Method Construction by Goal Analysis....Pages 79-91
The Agile Development of Rule Bases....Pages 93-104
Is There Only One Systems Development Life Cycle?....Pages 105-116
Age Differences in Technophobia: An Irish Study....Pages 117-130
Usability Evaluation of Information Systems: A Review of Five International Standards....Pages 131-142
User Involvement in the Design and Appropriation of a Mobile Clinical Information System: Reflections on Organisational Learning....Pages 143-156
A Practical Example for Model-Driven Web Requirements....Pages 157-168
A Model for Users' Action Prediction Based on Locality Profiles....Pages 169-181
A Survey of the Web/Hypermedia Development Process in Croatia....Pages 183-194
Requirements Engineering During Complex ISD: A Sensemaking Approach....Pages 195-209
Contextual Inquiry and Requirements Shaping....Pages 211-223
Building a Process Performance Model for Business Activity Monitoring....Pages 225-236
Service-Oriented Foundation and Analysis Patterns for Conceptual Model-ling of Information Systems....Pages 237-248
Specifying Collaborative System Requirements in Terms of Platforms and Services....Pages 249-265
An Improved Partitioning Method for Distributed Object-Oriented Systems....Pages 267-280
Towards Multifractal Approach in IS Development....Pages 281-293
Modeling of Product Software Businesses: Investigation into Industry Product and Channel Typologies....Pages 295-306
IS4DEV: IS Development and Development Issues....Pages 307-325
An Exploration of the Critical Success Factors for the Sustainability of Rural ICT Projects – The Dwesa Case Study....Pages 327-337
An Analysis of IT-Enabled Change in a Public Organization in Tanzania....Pages 339-352
Virtual Communities and eMunicipalities as Innovations....Pages 353-368
Open Source Public Sector Business Intelligence Systems....Pages 369-378
Sourcing Decisions of Software Applications Hosting: What Influence has e-Government Services....Pages 379-391
A Case Study of Systems Development in Custom IS Organizational Culture....Pages 393-404
Building a Dolmen: An ISD Approach to the Management of Innovation....Pages 405-416
The Role of Improvisation and Politics in ISD Practice....Pages 417-429
Designing Job Descriptions for Software Development....Pages 431-446
A Method for Rapid Creation of a Virtual Software Development Team....Pages 447-460
Girls and IT: New Times, New Challenges....Pages 461-470
A Theoretical Investigation of the Synergy Between Enterprise E-Learning and Knowledge Management....Pages 471-482
KNOC: A Knowledge-Oriented Cooperative Software Development Process....Pages 483-494
Resolving Emergent Issues in Complex Projects: A Knowledge Management Approach....Pages 495-507
Leadership Issues in ERP Implementation: Insights from Field Study....Pages 509-520
A Decision Support System for Enterprise Engineering....Pages 521-532
Why Focus on Roles when Developing Future ERP Systems....Pages 533-546
Back Matter....Pages 547-560
....Pages 561-600