| Subject: | [AISWorld] AMCIS 2013: Minitrack - Agile Project Management (IT Project Management Track) |
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| Date: | Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:32:13 -0500 |
| From: | Meghann Drury Grogan [Staff/Faculty [Business]] <mdrury@fordham.edu> |
| To: | aisworld@lists.aisnet.org <aisworld@lists.aisnet.org> |
Minitrack:
Agile Project Management
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IT Project Management Track
AMCIS 2013: August 15-17, 2013 Chicago, IL
Important Dates:
· February 22, 2013: (11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time): Deadline for paper submissions
· April 22, 2013: Authors will be notified of acceptances on or about this date
· May 9, 2013: (11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time): For accepted papers, camera ready copy due
More information is available at http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/or by contacting the minitrack co-chairs.
Agile methodologies such as eXtreme Programming (XP) and SCRUM strive to reduce the cost of change throughout the software development process. Even though there have been many success stories with the adoption of agile methodologies, managers of such project teams are challenged to align their traditional methodologies and tools to those of agile methodologies. This may be due to some fundamental differences in their approach to control, change, decision-making, team structure and communication.
Agile methodologies rely heavily on teams and teamwork. Therefore, management must develop a better understanding of the factors that help teams using agile methodologies drive project success. These may include selecting appropriate personnel for the team; creating an open work environment; ensuring correct decisions are made; encouraging continuous communication with the customer, and establishing evaluation and reward systems based on team performance.
A further difficulty for organisations relates to the management of a potentially diverse range of agile projects at portfolio level. Agile project portfolio management provides opportunities that a traditional project portfolio would not allow such as more transparent metrics, more frequent management review meetings, and quicker readjustment of project priorities and resources.
We are seeking high quality research papers for this track that investigate various aspects of agile project management. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
· Challenges implementing agile methodologies
· Managing co-located, virtual and/or distributed agile teams
· Decision-making and governance in agile teams
· Communication and interaction on agile teams
· Culture of agile teams
· Best practices in agile project management
· Evaluation and reward systems used by agile teams
· Agile project portfolio management
· Trends in agile project management
Submission Process
Full paper submissions must be made electronically through Manuscript Central. Papers will be peer reviewed using a double-blind system.
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Meghann Drury, Chair
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Orla O’Dwyer, Co-Chair |
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Fordham University Graduate School of Business Administration Gabelli School
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J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics NUI Galway Galway Ireland |
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Phone: +1 (847) 219 6423 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +1 (847) 219 6423 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
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Phone: +353 0(91) 49 5283 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +353 0(91) 49 5283 end_of_the_skype_highlighting |
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