Even though hundreds of modelling methods are in existence today, practitioners and
researchers are zealously 'producing'new modelling methods. The 'blooming'production of …

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) can experience difficulties in adopting
Information Systems (IS) and aligning them with their strategic development. Using the …

Awareness and use of agile methods has grown rapidly among the information systems
development (ISD) community in recent years. Like most previous methods, the …

In practice, many different people with backgrounds in many different disciplines contribute
to the design of an enterprise. Anyone who makes decisions to change the current …

Much research has been devoted over the years to investigating and advancing the
techniques and tools used by analysts when they model. As opposed to what academics …

This paper identifies factors that affected over 200 information system (IS) process
innovation adoption decisions in three organizational environments over a period that …

This exploratory study analyzes the relationship between organizational culture and the
deployment of systems development methodologies. Organizational culture is interpreted in …

Most people we know don't read a book's Preface. So, we'll keep it brief. Why read this
book? Why did we write it? The answer to both these questions is straightforward. We, the …

For years, agile methods are considered the most promising route toward successful
software development, and a considerable number of published studies the (successful) use …

This chapter examines the diffusion and adaptation of grounded theory method (GTM) in the
academic discipline of information systems (IS), a relatively recent, evolving field. It also …