Browsing Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change by Author "Conboy, Kieran"
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People over process: the implications of agile for IS skills
Conboy, Kieran; Coyle, Sharon (2009)Agile approaches to information systems development have become increasingly popular in recent years, as more and more IS organisations are eager to capitalise on the alleged opportunities and benefits they provide. ... -
Performance Management of Agile Software Development Teams
Lohan, Garry; Lang, Michael; Conboy, Kieran (2010)Around the same time as the emergence of agile methods as a formalized concept, the management accounting literature introduced the concept of Beyond Budgeting as a performance management model for a changing business ... -
Presenting data for team-based decision-making in agile information systems projects
Halonen, Raija; Acton, Thomas; Conboy, Kieran (2009)Although there are a number of purported benefits of agile systems development methods over traditional forms, many in the Information Systems Development (ISD) community highlight the difficulties that the dynamic, turbulent ... -
Project failure en masse: a study of loose budgetary control in ISD projects
Conboy, Kieran (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010-05-18)This paper investigates the tightness of budgetary control over projects in a large systems development multinational. This represents a case of extreme information systems development (ISD) failure en masse, where all but ... -
Project Management in Information Systems Development
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The role of the user story agile practice in innovation
O hEocha, Colm; Conboy, Kieran (Springer, 2010-10)The concept of an innovation space where different knowledge and perspectives can interact leading to innovation is central to lean thinking. The SECI framework of organizational knowledge creation identifies five enabling ... -
Understanding Agility in Software Development through A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
Wang, Xiaofeng; Conboy, Kieran (2009)Agile software development methods have emerged in recent years and have become increasingly popular since the start of the century. While much research claims to study agile methods, the meaning of agility itself in ... -
Using Agile Practices to Influence Motivation within IT Project Teams
McHugh, Orla; Conboy, Kieran; Lang, Michael (2011)This exploratory study of IT project teams in Sweden and Ireland investigates how three agile practices, namely daily stand-ups, iteration planning and iteration retrospectives, contribute to motivation or de-motivation ... -
Using focus groups in studies of ISD team behaviour
O hEocha, Colm; Conboy, Kieran (Academic Conferences International, 2010-06-25)This paper discusses an innovative focus group approach used to study an Information Systems Development (ISD) environment. The research had to cope with the application of a broad framework, untested in practice, seeking ... -
What's technology got to do With IT? A Dephi study on collaborative learning in distance educatio
O'Neill, Susan; Scott, Murray; Conboy, Kieran (London School of Economics, 2009)Collaborative Learning (CL) is increasingly being used in Distance Education (DE), as it has been identified as an effective solution to known weaknesses such as high average rates of dropout and low quality of learning ... -
Where agile research goes: starting from a 7-year retrospective (report on agile research workshop at XP2009)
Wang, Xiaofeng; Lane, Michael; Conboy, Kieran; Pikkarainen, Minna (2009)This report summarizes the key findings from a workshop at the 10th International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering (XP2009) called "Agile Research" A 7-Year Retrospective", ...