Call for Papers

AMCIS 2012

Seattle, Washington

August 9-12, 2012

 

Track: Systems Analysis and Design (SIGSAND)

Mini-track:  Contemporary Issues in Agile Development

 

Description

 

Agile manifesto, which introduced agility into software development, is now more than a decade old. During this period, agile methodologies have seen increased acceptance among software developers. Though agile methodologies, such as XP and Scrum, continue to grow in popularity, there is also evidence of a tailored approach being used by some organizations, by choosing agile practices from different methodologies that fit with their needs.  The increasing acceptance of agile methods by organizations brings to the fore a number of new research issues. These include adoption and post-adoption experiences with agile, experiences with tailored approach to agile development, agile project management, social aspects of agile development, distributed agile development, scalability of agile methodologies, and enterprise agility, to name but a few. For example, there is little of note on the project management aspects of agile development, including such issues as cost and schedule estimation and planning, allocation of resources, management of risks, and change control management. Also, with software development becoming more global, there is an urgent need to understand how agile practices can be effectively employed in a distributed environment.

 

The term “agility” has now assumed a broader meaning, extending its context and implications beyond software development to the overall organizational climate. Clearly, the growing popularity of agile principles and practices affords IS scholars opportunities to study these and many more research issues. This mini-track will provide a forum for researchers to address fundamental issues in agile development and to explore contemporary issues raised by the widespread acceptance of agile methodologies.

 

Scope

 

The following questions attempt to delineate the scope of this mini-track:

1. What are the critical success factors for the adoption and sustained use of agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum?
2. In what ways do agile project management practices differ from traditional approaches to managing IT projects?
3. What are the challenges and/or risks of using agile practices in a distributed software development environment? What steps should an organization take to mitigate these risks?
4. What are the issues in scaling software agility?
5. How are lean practices influencing agile software development?

 

Suggested Topics

 

• Agile project management – tools, metrics, practices, roles, risk management, etc.
• Tailored approach to agile development
• Knowledge Management in agile development
• “Agile methods in theory” versus “agile methods in practice”
• Decision-making and governance issues of agile development
• Self organizing principles and practices of agile teams
• Integrating human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts with agile development
• Economics of agile development
• Role of agile methods in large-scale, mission critical systems and large teams
• Agile development and process maturity (relationship to CMM-SW, CMMI and ISO 9001)
• The efficacy of Test-Driven Development
• Distributed agile development
• Enterprise agility
• Education and training in agile development
• Lean enterprise and software development

 

Important Dates

January 2, 2012    Submission opens

March 1, 2012    Submission deadline    

April 2, 2012    Notification of acceptance    

April 20, 2012     Final camera-ready copy due

 

Instructions for Authors

All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be submitted using the online submission system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012. 

For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference, visit the AMCIS 2012 conference website at http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/ after January 2, 2012. 

 

Minitrack Chair(s)

VenuGopal Balijepally, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, USA vebalijepally@pvamu.edu

RadhaKanta Mahapatra, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA mahapatra@uta.edu

Sridhar Nerur, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA snerur@uta.edu