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

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.

Information Systems Development Outcomes

2011 ◽  
pp. 48-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gordon Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
System Development ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
Positive Agreement

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.

The Resilience of Pre-Merger Fields of Practice During Post-Merger Information Systems Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Dragos Vieru ◽  
Suzanne Rivard
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post Merger Integration ◽  
Merger Integration

This article analyzes the interactions among individuals engaged in information system development (ISD) projects aimed to support an organization created by the merger of previously independent entities. The authors draw on a practice perspective on knowledge sharing across boundaries to analyze two ISD projects in a post-merger integration (PMI) context of the merger of three hospitals. In both projects, the final IS-enabled practices differed from the post-merger practices that had been planned by the hospital management. Our analysis suggests that pre-merger fields of practice tend to be resilient, and that this resilience originates in some of the agents' actions aimed at maintaining the status quo. In addition, they found this resilience to be facilitated by the ease of tailoring the software packages used to develop the two IS.

Information System Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 326-346
Author(s):  
Tony Elliman ◽  
Tally Hatzakis ◽  
Alan Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Process Simulation ◽  
System Development ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Automated Information System ◽  
Modelling Techniques

This chapter discusses the idea that even though information systems development (ISD) approaches have long advocated the use of integrated organisational views, the modelling techniques used have not been adapted accordingly and remain focused on the automated information system (IS) solution. Existing research provides evidence that business process simulation (BPS) can be used at different points in the ISD process to provide better-integrated organisational views that aid the design of appropriate IS solutions. Despite this fact, research in this area is not extensive; suggesting that the potential of using BPS for the ISD process is not yet well understood. The paper uses the findings from three different case studies to illustrate the ways BPS has been used at different points in the ISD process, especially in the area of requirements engineering. It compares the results against IS modelling techniques, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages that BPS has over the latter. The research necessary to develop appropriate BPS tools and give guidance on their use in the ISD process is discussed.

scholarly journals EXPLORING DEVOPS: CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joby P P
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Software Development ◽  
System Development ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Business Unit ◽  
Enterprise Software ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
The Relationship

The continuous evolving of the information technology towards the enhanced agile and collective strides of working from the document driven working has turned the focus to the features of the information system development and the operations. These agile approaches have paved way for the concepts that provide an incorporated development and operations coined as the DevOps. The DevOps is an enterprise software development and viewed as the appropriate perception for the simultaneous distribution and the positioning of the working software. It enhances and modifies the relationship by promoting improved communication and the cooperation among the business unit. However the adoption of the Development and the Operation being a complex task the paper presents the review on the challenges and the benefits of the DevOps and also explores the DevOps to offer an enhancement in the adoption of the DevOps in the information systems.

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-142 ◽  
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.

Communities of Practice and Critical Social Theory

2011 ◽  
pp. 49-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Participants

In philosophical terms, a key issue of communities of practice (CoPs) can be located within one of the key philosophical debates. The need for CoPs is traceable to the inadequacy in certain contexts of the so-called scientific or problem-solving method, which treats problems as independent of the people engaged on them. Examples of this can be drawn from the management domains of information systems development, project management, planning, and many others. In information systems development, for example, the whole basis of traditional systems analysis and design requires such an approach. In essence, in undertaking problem solving, the world is viewed as though it is made up of hard, tangible objects, which exist independently of human perception and about which knowledge may be accumulated by making the objects themselves the focus of our study. A more human-centered approach would, by contrast, see the world as interpreted through human perceptions: the reason why the problem cannot be solved is precisely because it lacks the objective reality required for problem solving. In taking this perspective, it may or may not be accepted that there exists a real world “out there”, but in any event, the position adopted is that our world can be known only through the perceptions of human participants. This question of objective reality is one with which philosophers have struggled for at least 2,500 years, and an understanding of it is essential to determining the need for, and purpose of, CoPs. The next section therefore discusses some of the philosophical issues relevant to the subjective-objective debate: a search for what, in these terms, it is possible for us to know and how we might know it.

Software Development for Information System - Achieving Optimum Quality with Security

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Syeda Umema Hani ◽  
Abu Turab Alam
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Process Improvement ◽  
System Development ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Capability Maturity ◽  
Quality Practices ◽  
Standard Quality

Information Systems acquisition, implementation, and development have been taking place in business organization to gain the competitive advantage. Rapid advancement of Technology is also popping up unethical issues involving violations of End users' data protection and privacy. This article discusses standard quality practices adhere to which a good quality software product is guaranteed while supporting the organizational strategic needs. It presents a framework that bridges Quality software development process improvement with strategic needs of an organization. Standard practices under consideration includes Capability Maturity Model for Development (CMMI-DEV) while using multi-model Process Improvement approach where an organization could use Balance Score Card technique while setting its strategic goals and monitoring their performance related to Information System development, and also link it with Information System management framework “Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology” (COBIT) - 5 released by Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), so that users could easily switch between the two standards. In last benefits are reported for using quality practices to realize attainment of competitive advantage.

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