Alternative Approaches to Information Systems Development

Brian Fitzgerald & Kenneth E. Kendall

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Brian Fitzgerald (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Kenneth E. Kendall (Rutgers University, USA)

Despite almost 50 years of information systems development (ISD) experience, the vast majority of ISD projects exceed budget, development schedule, and are of poor quality. Various ‘silver bullet’ solutions have been proposed in the past – formalised methods and CASE, for example – but these have had limited impact. In recent times, a number of practice-led initiatives have emerged that appear to address these three fundamental problems, and which are also suited to the emergent nature of IS requirements. These initiatives vary in character and include extreme programming and agile methods, the open source software phenomenon, component-based development, the use of commercial off-the-shelf software, and Web services. All have been vigorously promoted, yet much of the evidence is of an anecdotal nature. More rigorous research is needed to establish the extent to which these represent a paradigm shift in ISD, and to establish and transfer the lessons from each approach to general ISD practice. This research would compare the values, practices, and performance of systems built around human values. Much evidence suggests that the ISD context has changed radically in the past few years, thus, it may be time to identify a new paradigm for ISD.

Papers could focus on the following questions:

• To what extent do newer ISD approaches cater for the emergent nature of IS requirements?

• How can the lessons of open source development be transferred to mainstream development?

• What is the new paradigm underpinning development and how relevant are phases such as analysis, design, and separation of roles into analyst, designer and coder?

• What architectures are required for these new development approaches?

• How do we encourage the focus of systems development to be on human value systems?

• How agile are agile methods? How extreme is extreme programming?

• Do new core practices such as pair programming, forty-hour work weeks, and short releases improve the quality of systems?

• How does one balance resources and values to manage information systems development projects?

• In what contexts are extreme programming techniques and agile methods suited or unsuited? Can these methods scale to deal with large projects or life-critical projects, or distributed development contexts?

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Associate Editors:

• Pekka Abrahamsson (VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland)

• Par Agerfalk (University of Limerick, Ireland)

• Macedonio Alanis (ITESM, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico)

• Chris Barry (NUI Galway, Ireland)

• Frances Bell (University of Salford, UK)

• Tom Butler (University College, Cork, Ireland)

• Franca Cantoni (Catholic University, Piacenza, Italy)

• Kieran Conboy (NUI Galway, Ireland)

• Daniela Damian (University of Victoria, Canada)

• Evan Duggan (University of Alabama, USA)

• Mauricio Featherman (Washington State University, USA)

• Ola Henfriddson (Viktoria Institute, Sweden)

• Helena Holmstrom (Viktoria Institute, Sweden)

• Henri Isaac (Universite Paris-Dauphine, France)

• Letizia Jaccheri (Trondheim University, Norway)

• George M. Kasper (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

• Ruth King (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

• Christine T. Kydd (University of Delaware, USA)

• Roberta Lamb (University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA)

• Michael Lang (NUI Galway, Ireland)

• Ben Light (University of Salford, UK)

• Bjorn Lundell (University of Skovde, Sweden)

• Briony Oates (University of Teesside, UK)

• Phil O’Reilly (University College, Cork, Ireland)

• Jeff Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundand, Canada)

• Norah Power (University of Limerick, Ireland)

• Sandeep Purao (Penn State University)

• Sajda Qureshi (University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA)

• Knut Rolland (Trondheim University, Norway)

• Frantz Rowe (l'Universite de Nantes, France)

• David Sammon (University College, Cork, Ireland)

• Steve Sawyer (Penn State University, USA)

• Maha Shaikh (London School of Economics, UK)

• Ramesh Sharda (Oklahoma State University, USA)

• Keng Siau (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

• Jeff Smith (Wake Forest University, USA)

• Vijay Sugumaran (Oakland University, USA)

• Dov Te'eni (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

• Eileen Trauth (Penn State University, USA)

• Duane Truex (Georgia State University, USA)

• Cathy Urquhart (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

• Dave Wainwright (University of Northumbria, UK)

• Merrill Warkentin (Mississippi State University, USA)

• David Wilson (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)

• Ping Zhang (Syracuse University, USA)

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Reviewers:

Aidan Duane

Akhilesh Bajaj

Alberto Espinosa

Alberto Francesconi

Alea Fairchild

Andrea L. Houston

Andrew Burton-Jones

Andrew Gemino

Andrew Hardin

Angelo Caruso

Ashish Gupta

Aurelio Ravarini

Benjamin Khoo

Carina Ihlström

Carson Woo

Cecil Eng Huang Chua

Chittibabu Govindarajulu

Dave Croasdell

David Sammon

Dinesh Batra

Dursun Delen

Eija Karsten

Elayne Coakes

France Belanger

Francesco Bolici

Frederic Adam

Geoffrey S. Hubona

George Roussos

Gilles St Amand

Haiyan Huang

Hajer Kefi

Hala Annabi

Han Reichgelt

Harry Reif

Hong Sheng

Jack Baroudi

Jacob Nørbjerg

James Thong

Janice Sipior

Jean-Fabrice

JoAnn Brooks

Joe Feller

Joerg Evermann

John Wells

Jonny Holmström

Julie E. Kendall

Kannan Mohan

Kevin Kobelsky

Khaled Khan

Lina Zhou

Liping Liu

Lisa Murphy

Lynette Kvasny

Magnus Andersson

Maha Shaikh

Marc Bidan

Marc Favier

Maria Åkesson

Mark Bergman

Mark Dishaw

Mark Serva

Marta Indulska

Mattew L. Nelson

Michel Kalika

Mikael Wiberg

Muhammadou Kah

Nicholas Romano, Jr.

Ozgur Turetken

Pat Finnegan

Paul Lowry

Peretz Shoval

Peter Fettke

Philip Musa

Piet Ribbers

Prattim Datta

Ramanath Subramanyam

Ramesh Venkataraman

Ravi Sen

Redouane El Amrani

Richard Southwick

Rikard Lindgren

Robert Greve

Roger Chiang

Roger Johnson

Rolande Marciniak

Sandeep Purao

Solomon Antony

Steve Counsell

Steve Haynes

Thomas George

Tom Butler

Tonja Molin-Juustila

Traci Hess

Tuure Turrenen

Vijay Khatri

Weidong Xia

Xin Tan

Gary Griffiths

Leigh Keeble

Linda Hockley

Mike Lockyer

Glenn Browne

Gretchen Irwin

John Erickson

John Krogstie

Peter Green

Te-Wei Wang

Ashutosh Khanna

Carol Hsu

Chris Barry

Diego Navarra

Gamel Wiredu

Guy Fitzgerald

Mian Farooq Haq

Paul Beynon-Davies

Prodromos Tsiavos

Radhika Jain

Elaine Ferneley

Shaosong Ou

Stefan Koch

Sergio de Cesare

Jan Ljungberg

Elaine Ferneley

Gordon Fletcher

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