Effective organizational improvisation in information systems development: Insights from the Tencent messaging system development

When is an information system development outcome considered a success and when is it considered a failure? What factors contribute to a conclusion of either success or failure? How does the situation arise to create the environment which contributes to the above conclusions? Generally, an information system is considered a success when it does what it is supposed to and/or the user is satisfied with the system’s performance in support of the information-providing and decision-making responsibilities. Naturally, this area is fraught with the problems inherent in divergent interpretations of “what it is supposed to do,” “satisfaction,” and “systems performance.” Suffice it to say, when the systems developer and user are in positive agreement about these interpretations, the information system development outcome may be considered successful.

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FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE STUDENT TEAMS IN INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: STUDENT’S PERSPECTIVES

Jurnal Sistem Informasi ◽

10.21609/jsi.v10i2.391 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 90

Author(s):

Sofiyanti Indriasari ◽

Dana Indra Sensuse

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

Information Systems ◽

Software Development ◽

System Development ◽

Systems Development ◽

Development Project ◽

Information Systems Development ◽

Research Model ◽

Information System Development ◽

Student Teams

The success of information systems development activities are influenced by technology and human resources. Experience and knowledge of team members is the key to performance improvements in the software development process. So the experience and knowledge are considered to be one of the main capitals in the success of a software development team. However, what if the information system development team are students who may not have experience at all ? Is the information system developed by an un-experienced team always fail ? Therefore, it is necessary to conduct a study to identify the factors that influence the student teams in information systems development project. The study was conducted with the literature study to establish research model. Furthermore, a survey conducted by distributing questionnaires to students of information systems whom are doing an internship in developing information systems. The results of the survey were analyzed quantitatively using Partial Least Square technique to test the proposed research model. The results of this study indicate that the development of information systems conducted by a team of students is significantly influenced by the Customer Relationship and Horizontal Relationship. Capability factor have a significant effect although the effect is small on the student teams.

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Toward an Autopoietic Approach for Information Systems Development

Information Modeling in the New Millennium ◽

10.4018/978-1-878289-77-3.ch003 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 34-52

Author(s):

El-Sayed Abou-Zeid

Keyword(s):

Fuzzy Logic ◽

Information Systems ◽

System Development ◽

Real Life ◽

Systems Development ◽

Information Systems Development ◽

Technical Literature ◽

Domain Independence ◽

System Development Methodologies ◽

The Way

Several weaknesses of information systems development methodologies have been identified and studied in the recent years. These weaknesses can be viewed from different perspectives such as: • The characteristics of the outcomes, i.e., information systems: The current methodologies are producing systems with rigid and inflexible that are difficult to maintain and to evolve (e.g., Loucopoulos, 1991). • The degree of the domain-independence: There is a gap between the way system development methodologies in the mainstream of scientific and technical literature and the way they are carried out in real life situations. This is mainly due to the domain-independence of most of these methodologies (Bansler & Bolker, 1993, Vessy & Glass, 1998). • The conceptual and philosophical bases: The dominance of the functionalistic view in the most of current methodologies (Hirschheim, Klein & Lyytinen, 1995, Iivari, 1991, Iivari, Hirschheim & Klein, 1998). In addition, most of information systems development methodologies under-utilize the richness of concepts and insights provided by new and emerging theories such as autopoiesis, self-organization, and fuzzy logic. Moreover, they do not accommodate the new emerging information systems and technologies such as component and framework technologies, web-enabled information systems and ERP.

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Review and critique of the information systems development project failure literature: An argument for exploring information systems development project distress

Journal of Information Technology ◽

10.1177/0268396219832010 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 123-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Zeinab Baghizadeh ◽

Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic ◽

Daniel Schlagwein

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

System Development ◽

Systems Development ◽

Development Project ◽

Information Systems Development ◽

Project Failure ◽

Critical Problems ◽

Development Processes ◽

State Of Affairs ◽

Problematic Situations

High failure rates of information systems development (ISD) projects continue to trouble organizations and information systems practices. Such a state of affairs has been of great concern for the information systems discipline for decades, motivating information systems researchers to focus on and extensively study ISD project failure. However, the increasing complexity and uncertainty of ISD projects and contemporary system development processes are challenging ISD project failure scholarship. In this article, we ask the questions: What are the contributions and weaknesses of the extant ISD project failure/success literature? What are potential avenues to move the ISD literature forward? To answer these questions, first, we present a literature review that assesses research contributions within the major perspectives on ISD failure (i.e. rationalist, process and narrative). While the extant research within all perspectives make significant contributions to knowledge, we find that researchers remain preoccupied with ‘project failure’ as an end state of an ISD project. They pay little attention to problematic situations arising during ISD projects before they become failed projects. Based on the review and critique of the literature, we then argue that there is a significant benefit in extending research focus from ISD project failure to ‘ISD project distress’, which we define as a harmful project condition involving dynamic and fluid constellation of critical problems that are difficult to identify, understand and resolve. While ISD project distress is an increasingly perilous and consequential phenomenon, little is known about its nature and potential responses. Drawing from the sensemaking literature, we propose a multilevel theoretical framework for understanding the nature and sources of ISD project distress that provides a foundation for exploring early detection and timely response. We demonstrate the theoretical and practical relevance of the concept of ISD project distress and propose a corresponding research agenda.

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An Inventory of Personal Constructs for Information Systems Project Risk Researchers

Journal of Information Technology ◽

10.1177/026839629601100409 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 359-371 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Tony Moynihan

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

System Development ◽

Systems Development ◽

Situational Factors ◽

Information Systems Development ◽

Personal Construct ◽

Personal Constructs ◽

Situational Characteristics ◽

Development Literature ◽

Valuable Role

This paper explores the application of personal construct elicitation techniques to the identification of the situational factors that managers of bespoke information system development projects take into account when planning new projects for new customers. It is shown that the personal constructs elicited reflect most of the contingency variables and risk-drivers mentioned in the information systems development literature, but also include some situational characteristics not addressed in this literature. It is concluded that personal construct elicitation techniques have a valuable role to play in information systems development research.

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Persistence and Change in System Development: A Dialectical View

Journal of Information Technology ◽

10.1080/0268396032000101144 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 69-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Rajiv Sabherwal ◽

Michael Newman

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Development Process ◽

System Development ◽

Systems Development ◽

Information Systems Development ◽

Dialectical Theory ◽

Is Development ◽

Process Elements

This paper seeks to advance our understanding of the dynamics of persistence and change in information systems development. Towards this goal, it draws upon dialectical theory, which enables viewing persistence and change during IS development relative to the thesis operating at that time. This approach recognizes that the nature of the system itself often changes during the development process. This also allows simultaneous attention to persistence and change, combining persistence with certain elements of the thesis along with change in some other elements. Empirically based on three cases, the paper provides insights into the content and process elements of theses, governing the characteristics of the system and the nature of the development process, respectively. It offers one possible explanation for the evolution of the IS development process and some insights into the strategies for improving this process through greater attention to the theses and the dialectic processes.

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