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Understanding and Managing Process Interaction in IS Development Projects

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Nordic Contributions in IS Research (SCIS 2012)

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Software-based information systems must be developed and implemented as a part of business change. This is a major challenge, since business change and the development of software-based information systems usually are performed in separate processes. Thus, there is a need to understand and manage the relationship between these two kinds of processes. In this paper we draw on a longitudinal case study. We suggest a framework to analyze the case as interaction between software development processes and organizational change processes. In the analysis we find that the framework enables us to understand critical events in the case, what led to the events, and what the consequences are. We discuss the implications for information systems research and in particular we discuss the contribution to project management of iterative and incremental software development.

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  1. Norwegian School of IT, Oslo, Norway

    Bendik Bygstad

  2. Research Centre for Socio-Interactive Design, Aalborg University, Denmark

    Peter Axel Nielsen

  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Norway

    Peter Axel Nielsen

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  1. Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden

    Christina Keller

  2. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Mikael Wiberg , Pär J. Ågerfalk  & Jenny S. Z. Eriksson Lundström ,  & 

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Bygstad, B., Nielsen, P.A. (2012). Understanding and Managing Process Interaction in IS Development Projects. In: Keller, C., Wiberg, M., Ågerfalk, P.J., Eriksson Lundström, J.S.Z. (eds) Nordic Contributions in IS Research. SCIS 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32270-9_2

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