Track Chairs
UK
Australia
Description
Enabled by IS development (ISD), information systems projects and programs (ISP) are fuelling the transformation of organisations. From small-business initiatives to corporate, from the way governments deliver services to the way entire industries operate, ISP and ISD are critical to the continuous process of social and technical transformation. As the pace of change accelerates, and organisations are forced to move from being process-based to embrace projectization, we are witnessing the emergence of new processes, practices, and methods that promise improvements of effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of ISD and ISP with consequential organizational and societal benefits. However, these promises are not always fulfilled and new approaches often present new challenges hence the need for new research.
Therefore, this track is concerned with a broad spectrum of methods and practices that have emerged to assist individuals, teams, and organizations to understand these challenges and to improve performance. These include, but are not limited to, agile and lean approaches, the role of IS projects and programs in the transformation of organisations and the evolution of industries and countries.
Topics of Interests
We welcome papers in the Managing IS Projects and IS Development track that improve our understanding of the diverse and complex nature of IS projects and programs, particularly with respect to IS development. Submissions could include, but are not limited to the following topics:
- Managing issues in IS projects including estimation, risk, quality assurance, governance, and knowledge.
- IS project management capabilities, competence and maturity.
- Managing IS-enabled programs of organizational transformation, governance, coordination, politics, and complexities.
- People-related issues in IS projects, including diversity, leadership and power
- Managing distributed and virtual IS projects.
- Sourcing of IS projects, including offshoring, outsourcing, nearshoring, crowdsourcing, inner sourcing or multi-sourcing.
- Value enhancement of IS project management and benefit realization in IS programs and projects.
- IS design and development in practice, including methods and tools such as agile and lean development, component-based processes, service-orientation, and open source.
- Managing IS development and systems integration.
- Managing large scale IS projects such as the deployment and implementation of enterprise systems and other packaged software applications, in a wide range of settings.
- Issues in managing mobile apps development.
- Socio-technical issues, including managing and developing in the cloud, complexity as a risk (positive and negative), impact of size, dealing with failure, effective governance, and ambidexterity, to name a few.
Associate Editors
- David Arnott, Monash U.
- Dirk Basten, U. in Cologne
- Lan Cao, Old Dominion U.
- Suranjan Chakraborty, Towson U.
- Sharon Coyle, U. of Sydney
- Michael Cuellar, Georgia Southern U.
- Antonio Diaz Andrade, Auckland U. of Technology
- Owen Eriksson, Uppsala U.
- Andrew Gemino, Simon Fraser U.
- Robert Gregory, IESE Business School, U. of Navarra
- Riitta Hekkala, Aalto U.
- Rashina Hoda, The U. of Auckland
- Helena Holmström Olsson, Malmö U.
- Lesley Land, U. of New South Wales
- Lorraine Lee, U. of North Carolina at Wilmington
- Alanah Mitchell, Drake U.
- Maria Paasivaara, Aalto U.
- Samuli Pekkola, Tampere U. of Technology
- Sumantra Sarkar, Binghamton U.
- John Trip, Baylor U.
- John Tripp, Baylor U.
- Richard Vidgen, U. of Hull
- Radu Vlas, U. of Houston–Clear Lake
- Xiaofeng Wang, Free U. of Bozen-Bolzano
- Barbara Weber, U. of Innsbruck
- Manuel Wiesche, Technische Universität München
- Xiao Xiao, Copenhagen Business School
