Action research (AR) has for many years been promoted and practised as one way to
conduct field studies within the information systems (IS) discipline. Based on a review of …

Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to
become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project …

Carefully researched over ten years and eagerly anticipated by the agile community, Crystal
Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams is a lucid and practical introduction …

This article reviews 322 representative contributions to the software process improvement
(SPI) literature. The contributions are categorised according to a simple framework: whether …

Reports from a systems development research tradition in which emphasis is put on relating
research activities to practice and on establishing fruitful collaboration between groups of …

Many software organizations engage in software process improvement (SPI) initiatives to
increase their capability to develop quality solutions at a competitive level. Such efforts …

Software process improvement (SPI) can be seen as a profession having its own
competence needs and its own community of interest. European projects EQN and EU Cert …

This paper explores the practical usage of insights on knowledge management (KM) to
support innovation in a software organization. The organization has for some time engaged …

Since the beginning of the 1990ies process improvement was considered as a formal issue.
Focus was on process description and improvement was a somewhat better description …

A fundamental tenet of the information systems (IS) discipline holds that:(a) a lack of formal
power and influence over the organization targeted for change,(b) weak support from top …