Browsing by Author "Conboy, Kieran"
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A delphi study on collaborative learning in distance education: the faculty perspective
O'Neill, Susan; Scott, Murray; Conboy, Kieran (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-09-21)This paper focuses on the factors that influence collaborative learning in distance education. Distance education has been around for many years and the use of collaborative learning techniques in distance education is ... -
Access rights as a part of information security in enterprises
Golden, William; Conboy, Kieran; Acton, Thomas; Halonen, Raija (Association of Information Systems, 2008)This paper highlights the problem with access rights as a part of information security in enterprises with many information systems and their human users. In many organisations, users often write down their user names and ... -
Agile Practices in Use from an Innovation Assimilation Perspective: a Multiple Case Study
Wang, Xiaofeng; Conboy, Kieran (2007)Agile methods have been adopted by many information systems development (ISD) teams and organizations in recent years. However, while agile method research is growing, many studies lack a strong theoretical and conceptual ... -
Agile practices: the impact on trust in software project teams
McHugh, Orla; Conboy, Kieran; Lang, Michael (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-05-01) -
Agility from first principles: reconstructing the concept of agility in information systems development
Conboy, Kieran (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2009-09)Awareness and use of agile methods has grown rapidly among the information systems development (ISD) community in recent years. Like most previous methods, the development and promotion of these methods have been almost ... -
Assimilation of agile practices in use
Wang, Xiaofeng; Conboy, Kieran; Pikkarainen, Minna (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-01-18)Agile method use in information systems development (ISD) has grown dramatically in recent years. The emergence of these alternative approaches was very much industry-led at the outset, and while agile method research is ... -
Beyond Budgeting: A Performance Management Model for Software Development Teams
Lohan, Garry; Conboy, Kieran; Lang, Michael (2010)The Beyond Budgeting performance management model enables companies to keep pace with changing environments, to quickly create and adapt strategy and to empower people throughout the organisation to make effective choices. ... -
Building a dolmen: an ISD approach to the management of innovation
Costello, Gabriel; Conboy, Kieran; Donnellan, Brian (Springer, 2008-10-24)This paper addresses a ¿challenge in practice¿ by describing the initial stage of an information systems development (ISD) project to support the management of innovation within a subsidiary of APC-MGE. To begin with, a ... -
A case study of risk management in agile systems development
Coyle, Sharon; Conboy, Kieran (2009-06-08)A principal objective of agile development methods is to reduce risk thereby resulting in more successful and effective information systems. However, while there is an extensive body of academic literature on risk ... -
Combining open innovation and agile approaches: implications for IS project managers
Morgan, Lorraine; Conboy, Kieran (2010-06)This paper describes a research-in-progress that explores the applicability and implications of open innovation in a multiple-project environment that employs agile approaches to information systems development. In doing ... -
Contribution behaviours in systems development - a position paper
Coyle, Sharon; Conboy, Kieran; Acton, Thomas (2009-12-02)This development research paper explores concepts associated with contribution behaviours. Contribution, in its simplest context occurs in organization settings where employees share knowledge with one another. Usually, ... -
Control in E-Government Projects - An Exploratory Study
McHugh, Orla; Conboy, Kieran; Scott, Murray (2010)This study highlights a distinct lack of research on control in e-Government projects and provides a framework using control theory to address this. The paper draws on four exploratory case studies, highlighting a number ... -
Cost Estimation in Agile Software Development Projects
Lang, Michael; Keaveney, Siobhán; Conboy, Kieran (2011)Numerous studies over the years have shown that information systems development (ISD) projects often run over budget or fail entirely. Such failures are not restricted to certain industry sectors or project types; rather ... -
A crowdsourcing framework for stakeholder engagement in funding agency call processes
Cullina, Eoin (NUI Galway, 2020-03-02)Public research funding agencies have sought to better involve the general public and other stakeholders in their competitive processes for the allocation of research funding. Such efforts result from the worldwide push ... -
Data presentation for agile information systems project decision making
Halonen, Raija; Acton, Thomas; Conboy, Kieran (2008)Awareness and use of agile methods has grown rapidly amongst the information systems development (ISD) community in recent years, and have been largely well received. While there are a number of purported benefits, many ... -
Decisive and Incisive - The Path of DSS
Sharkey, Ultan; Acton, Thomas; Conboy, Kieran (2008)Through this study we explore the literature discussing what management information systems are what decision support systems are in an attempt to clarify the taxonomies available in the literature into a holistic discourse. ... -
DeLone & McLean success model as a descriptive tool in evaluating the use of a virtual learning environment
Conboy, Kieran; Golden, William; Acton, Thomas; Halonen, Raija (2009)This paper contributes the discussion about applying DeLone & McLean success model. Since its introduction in 1992, the model has been widely used and evaluated. In this paper the model is used as a descriptive tool in ... -
A Delphi study on collaborative learning in distance education: The faculty perspective
O'Neill, Susan; Scott, Murray; Conboy, Kieran (2011)This paper focuses on the factors that influence collaborative learning in distance education. Distance education has been around for many years and the use of collaborative learning techniques in distance education is ... -
A Delphi study on collaborative learning in distance education: The faculty perspective
O'Neill, Susan; Scott, Murray; Conboy, Kieran (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-09-21)This paper focuses on the factors which influence collaborative learning in distance education. Distance education has been around for many years and the use of collaborative learning techniques in distance education is ... -
Examining Customer Focus in Agile Systems Development Teams - Findings from Irish and Norwegian Case Studies
Lohan, Garry; Conboy, Kieran; Lang, Michael (2011)While an acute, continuous focus on customer needs is often cited as a key benefit of agile approaches, very little research has examined the customer focus construct in an agile project environment, or looked at the ...