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This is a reminder for the Special Issue at the European Journal
of Information Systems on
Orchestration in Contemporary Software Development Ecosystems
Submission deadline: 1. Sept 2018
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This special issue call for papers welcomes contributions that
have the potential to provide insight on the orchestration of
software development in contemporary digital ecosystems. The past
decade has seen tremendous transformation in these ecosystems
giving rise to new approaches for how software is developed, as
well as the management and execution of the software development
process. Three domains in which these changes have been especially
notable are (1) in the human resources involved in software
development; (2) in the software agents that impact software
applications under development; and (3) development of new
practices in relation to these transformations.
In the human resource domain, the emergence of software-focused
crowdsourcing platforms (e.g., TopCoder) has expanded the scope
and composition of who contributes to software development
(Ågerfalk et al. 2015, Saremi et al. 2017). At the same time, the
intensified collaborations between commercial organizations and
open source communities in the development of software demands new
thinking on how to balance an expectation of openness with the
pursuit of commercial interests such as monetization (e.g.,
Germonprez et al. 2017).
In the software agent domain, we have seen an increase in actors
at the content, device and network layers because of the emergence
of unique digital ecosystems. The intertwining of these layers of
the digital ecosystem has resulted in the immense expansion of the
number of stakeholders involved in the development of software and
the dependencies between them (Yoo et al. 2010). For example, the
explosion of APIs (17,000 at last count:
http://bit.ly/2xz5GtW)
across a variety of software sectors is not only evidence for an
increase of involved actors, but also illustrates changes in the
development of software functions that interface with services
generated by these APIs (Tavares et al. 2017).
In addition, the expansion of the Internet of Things has
introduced products that serve as platforms that connect
developers with consumers enabling the continuous delivery of
services and generation of insights from products in use (Porter
and Heppelmann 2014). Moreover, novel practices like DevOps and
BizDev enable continuous development (Fitzgerald and Stol, 2017),
and development methods are increasingly becoming hybrid (Bick et
al., 2017).
We are interested in ground-breaking, thought-provoking
submissions that can inform our appreciation of the orchestration
of software development in these different emerging digital
ecosystems. These expansive changes to the software landscape
necessitate a revisiting of our approaches to software
development; including identification of new development practices
for the challenges and opportunities that have emerged amid this
transformation, understanding how existing practices are being
adapted to meet these changes, exploring how development can be
scaled-up to meet the challenges and opportunities created by
these changes and elaborating the strategic imperatives that come
to the fore when developing in such ecosystems.
Conceptual and empirical submissions are welcome and may address
any the following topic areas, but are not be limited to these:
* Strategic considerations when leveraging crowdsourcing platforms
for software development
* Combinations of new approaches to software development and IT
operation
* Software design for leveraging API-based services
* Balancing openness and commercial interest in collaboration with
open source communities
* Complexity in software development and organizations
* Coordinating software development between employees and the
crowd
* Governance of software engagements with various actors
* Customer collaboration across multiple boundaries
* Coordinating software development and product development cycles
* Scaling and tailoring agile practices in software development
* Adaptation of software development methods for engaging with a
multitude of actors, including crowds and in large-scale projects
* Continuous software development, DevOps and BizDev practices
* Empirical examples of hybrid development methods and tailoring
of development methods in new contexts.
Kindly direct any questions regarding this special issue to the
guest editors:
* Likoebe Maruping, Georgia State University, USA
(
lmaruping@gsu.edu<mailto:lmaruping@gsu.edu>)
* Sabine Matook, University of Queensland, Australia
(
s.matook@business.uq.edu.au<mailto:s.matook@business.uq.edu.au>)
* Knut Rolland, University of Oslo, Norway
(
knutr@ifi.uio.no<mailto:knutr@ifi.uio.no>)
Please see for further details:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/est/jmp04037-tjis-orchestration-in-contemporary-software-development-ecosystems?utm_source=CPB&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JMP04037
Kind regards.
Sabine Matook on behalf of the Special Issue Editors
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Dr. Sabine Matook
Associate Professor
The University of Queensland -
http://www.uq.edu.au/
UQ Business School -
http://www.business.uq.edu.au/
Brisbane QLD 4072
Australia
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