...Fred Niederman Purpose The purpose of this essay is to illustrate how project management “pull” and AI or analytics technology “push” are likely to result in incremental and disruptive evolution of project management capabilities and practices. Design/methodology/approach This paper is written...

...Katie Jane Taylor Purpose Early research into Agile approaches explored particular practices or quantified improvements in code production. Less well researched is how Agile teams are managed. The project manager (PM) role is traditionally one of “command and control” but Agile methods require...

... as possible. Students practicing the project manager's job confronted the most difficult moral conflicts. Practical implications The just IS student project community is suggested as a way of integrating ethics into IS education, and extending the research on moral conflicts to the business context...

... increase the chance of success. Design/methodology/approach Based on the literature on IS success and global teams, an input‐process‐output framework is adopted to develop the research model for the study. This research is based on semi‐structured interviews with 22 global IS project managers...

... and measuring the complexity of an ISD project (ISDP). Their framework consists of two dimensions: Hind Benbya can be contacted at: Hind.Benbya@anderson.ucla.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Information systems Design and development Complexity theory Adaptability Project...

... theory Case studies Project management Over the past 20 years much valuable research has been undertaken to understand information systems (IS) engagement, particularly failures or spiralling costs, through the study of critical success factors (Somers and Nelson, 2004), implementation...

... Action research Project management Systems design Implementation Information systems Action research (AR) is a vague concept but it has been defined as research that involves practical problem solving which has theoretical relevance. Practical knowledge is diffused through reports...

... to introduce people to maps and do the actual mapping), but maps were used when we analysed the interviews. The interviews were tape‐recorded for exact reference to the quoted statements. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Co‐operation Design Product development Project management Systems development...