[AISWorld] CFP: AMCIS 2012 Minitrack on Contemporary Issues in Agile Development

[Venugopal Balijepally]

 *Call for Papers*

AMCIS 2012

Seattle, Washington

August 9-12, 2012



Track: Systems Analysis and Design (SIGSAND)

*Mini-track:  Contemporary Issues in Agile Development*



*Description*



Agile manifesto, which introduced agility into software development, is now
more than a decade old. During this period, agile methodologies have seen
increased acceptance among software developers. Though agile
methodologies, such
as XP and Scrum, continue to grow in popularity, there is also evidence of
a tailored approach being used by some organizations, by choosing agile
practices from different methodologies that fit with their needs.  The
increasing acceptance of agile methods by organizations brings to the fore
a number of new research issues. These include adoption and post-adoption
experiences with agile, experiences with tailored approach to agile
development, agile project management, social aspects of agile development,
distributed agile development, scalability of agile methodologies, and
enterprise agility, to name but a few. For example, there is little of note
on the project management aspects of agile development, including such
issues as cost and schedule estimation and planning, allocation of
resources, management of risks, and change control management. Also, with
software development becoming more global, there is an urgent need to
understand how agile practices can be effectively employed in a distributed
environment.



The term “agility” has now assumed a broader meaning, extending its context
and implications beyond software development to the overall organizational
climate. Clearly, the growing popularity of agile principles and practices
affords IS scholars opportunities to study these and many more research
issues. This mini-track will provide a forum for researchers to address
fundamental issues in agile development and to explore contemporary issues
raised by the widespread acceptance of agile methodologies.



*Scope*



The following questions attempt to delineate the scope of this mini-track:

   1. What are the critical success factors for the adoption and sustained
   use of agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) and Scrum?
   2. In what ways do agile project management practices differ from
   traditional approaches to managing IT projects?
   3. What are the challenges and/or risks of using agile practices in a
   distributed software development environment? What steps should an
   organization take to mitigate these risks?
   4. What are the issues in scaling software agility?
   5. How are lean practices influencing agile software development?



*Suggested Topics*



   - Agile project management – tools, metrics, practices, roles, risk
   management, etc.
   - Tailored approach to agile development
   - Knowledge Management in agile development
   - “Agile methods in theory” versus “agile methods in practice”
   - Decision-making and governance issues of agile development
   - Self organizing principles and practices of agile teams
   - Integrating human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts with agile
   development
   - Economics of agile development
   - Role of agile methods in large-scale, mission critical systems and
   large teams
   - Agile development and process maturity (relationship to CMM-SW, CMMI
   and ISO 9001)
   - The efficacy of Test-Driven Development
   - Distributed agile development
   - Enterprise agility
   - Education and training in agile development
   - Lean enterprise and software development



*Important Dates*

January 2, 2012    Submission opens

March 1, 2012    Submission deadline

April 2, 2012    Notification of acceptance

April 20, 2012     Final camera-ready copy due



*Instructions for Authors*

All conference submissions will be double-blind, peer reviewed, and must be
submitted using the online submission system at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2012.

For complete instructions for authors and information about the conference,
visit the AMCIS 2012 conference website at
http://amcis2012.aisnet.org/after January 2, 2012.




*Minitrack Chair(s)*

VenuGopal Balijepally, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, USA
vebalijepally at pvamu.edu

RadhaKanta Mahapatra, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
mahapatra at uta.edu

Sridhar Nerur, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
snerur at uta.edu
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