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Business Agility and Information Technology Diffusion

IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, May 8-11, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

  • Presents the most current research (including case studies) in how to create and manage the most effective business IT solutions
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Why Agility Now?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Agility in Fours: IT Diffusion, IT Infrastructures, IT Development, and Business

      • Richard L. Baskerville, Lars Mathiassen, Jan Pries-Heje
      Pages 3-10
    3. Information Technology Diffusion Research: An Interim Balance

      • Karlheinz Kautz, Helle Zinner Henriksen, Toke Breer-Mortensen, Helle Helweg Poulsen
      Pages 11-34
    4. Agility in Information Systems Development: A Three-Tiered Framework

      • Kieran Conboy, Brian Fitzgerald, William Golden
      Pages 35-49
  3. Agile IT Diffusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
    2. Navigating Software Process Improvement Projects

      • Ivan Aaen, Anna Börjesson, Lars Mathiassen
      Pages 53-71
    3. Mapping Social Networks in Software Process Improvement: An Action Research Study

      • Peter Axel Nielsen, Gitte Tjørnehøj
      Pages 73-90
    4. Organizational Information System Adoption: A Network Perspective

      • Dirk S. Hovorka, Kai R. Larsen
      Pages 91-109
    5. Crossing the Chasm in Software Process Improvement

      • Anna Börjesson, Fredrik Martinsson, Magnus TimmerÃ¥s
      Pages 111-128
    6. Fooling Around: The Corporate Jester as an Effective Change Agent for Technological Innovation

      • Tom McMaster, David Wastell, Helle Zinner Henriksen
      Pages 129-144
  4. Agile Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
    2. A Study of the Use of Agile Methods within Intel

      • Brian Fitzgerald, Gerard Hartnett
      Pages 187-202
    3. Web Publishing: An Extreme, Agile Experience

      • Mark Toleman, Fiona Darroch, Mustafa Ally
      Pages 245-256

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About this book

International Federation for Information Processing The IFIP series publishes state-of-the-art results in the sciences and technologies of information and communication. The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. These results often precede journal publication and represent the most current research. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing. For more information about the 300 other books in the IFIP series, please visit springeronline.com. For more information about IFIP, please visit www.ifip.or.at.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Georgia State University, USA

    Richard L. Baskerville, Lars Mathiassen

  • IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jan Pries-Heje

  • University of Minnesota, USA

    Janice I. DeGross

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