Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory, and Education Volume 1

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