AMCIS 2015 CFP: Mini-Track: Contemporary Issues in Agile Development

Track: Systems Analysis and Design

Peurto Rico, August 13-15, 2015

Agile manifesto, which introduced agile methodologies, is now more than a decade old. During this period, these methodologies have seen increased acceptance among software developers. This brings to the fore a number of research issues—adoption and/or adaptation of agile methods, agile project management, social aspects of agile development, distributed agile development, scalability of agile methodologies, and enterprise agility, to name but a few. The incorporation of myriad practices, particularly those advocated by lean principles, has only rendered the term "agility" more nebulous. Prospective research topics include lean and agile practices and their synergies/differences, and the role of agile/lean principles in facilitating flexible enterprise architectures. Considering the rapid growth of agile development practices, the Project Management Institute (PMI) recently introduced a new certification program focused on agile project management. This is expected to further consolidate and spread the use of agile development. Some illustrative project management aspects of agile development in need of research attention include cost and schedule estimation/planning, resource allocation, risk management, and change control management.

 

This mini-track will provide a forum for researchers to address fundamental issues regarding agile development practices as well as contemporary topics raised by its widespread acceptance and use.

 

Suggested Topics

·         Agile project management versus traditional project management

·         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

·         Scalability of agile projects

·         Agile development in regulated environments

·         Distributed agile development, challenges, risks, and opportunities

·         Lean practices in agile development

·         Synergies/differences between lean principles and agility

·         Ability of agile practices to deal with project disruptions

 

Submit your manuscript before 2pm February 25, 2015 at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2015

For submission guidelines, please refer to:  http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/submission-guidelines

For general information on AMCIS 2015:  http://amcis2015.aisnet.org/

 

Important dates:

February 25, 2015            Submission Deadline
April 21, 2015                     Author Notification
April 28, 2015                     Camera Ready Submission Deadline

Sridhar Nerur University of Texas Arlington snerur@uta.edu

VenuGopal Balijepally Oakland University balijepa@oakland.edu

Torgeir Dingsøyr SINTEF ICT  Torgeir.Dingsoyr@sintef.no

Nils Brede Moe SINTEF ICT  nils.b.moe@sintef.no