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Abstract Announcement for International Journal of Information
Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) 7(1). The contents of the
latest issue of:
International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
(IJITSA)
An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Volume 7, Issue 1, January - June 2014
Published: Semi-Annually in Print and Electronically
ISSN: 1935-570X; EISSN: 1935-5718;
Published by IGI Global Publishing, Hershey, USA
www.igi-global.com/ijitsa

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Manuel Mora (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes,
Mexico)

Editorial Preface
Manuel Mora (Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA),
Aguascalientes, Mexico)

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ARTICLE 1

An Innovative Approach to the Development of an International Software
Process Lifecycle Standard for Very Small Entities

Rory V. O'Connor (Lero - The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre,
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland), Claude Y. Laporte (École de
Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada)

For very small software development companies, the quality of their
software products is a key to competitive advantage. However, the usage of
Software Engineering standards is extremely low amongst such very small
software companies. A primary reason cited by many such companies for this
lack of quality standards adoption is the perception that they have been
developed for large multi-national software companies and not with small
and very small organizations in mind and are therefore not suitable for
their specific needs. This paper describes an innovative systematic
approach to the development of the software process lifecycle standard for
very small entities ISO/IEC 29110, following the Rogers model of the
Innovation-Development process. The ISO/IEC 29110 standard is unique
amongst software and systems engineering standards, in that the working
group mandated to develop a new standard approached industry to conduct a
needs assessment and gather actual requirements for a new standard as part
of the standards development process. This paper presents a unique insight
from the perspective of some of the standards authors on the development
of the ISO/IEC 29110 standard, including the rationale behind its
development and the innovative design of implementation guides to assist
very small companies in adopting the standards, as well outlining a pilot
project scheme for usage in early trials of this standard.

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ARTICLE 2

Implications of Pressure for Shortening the Time to Market (TTM) in
Defense Projects

Moti Frank (HIT-Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel), Boaz Carmi
(IMI-Israel Military Industries, Ramar Hasharon, Israel)

In recent years, government and prime contractors have been expressing a
growing demand, requesting that their defense R&D contractors shorten the
Time To Market (TTM). This paper presents a study aimed at investigating
whether developing systems using fast approaches is always preferable to
traditional approaches. Does working according to a fast development
approach ultimately shorten TTM? And if so, what are the implications of
achieving this goal in relation to meeting the requirements and the
planned budget? Two groups of projects, three projects in each group, were
examined. The traditional, step-by-step, development strategy was chosen
for the projects in the first group while for the other three projects,
fast development strategies were chosen. The findings of the study show
that fast development approach is not always preferable to the traditional
approach. Pushing for a shorter TTM eventually caused serious budget and
time overrun problems.

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ARTICLE 3

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Open Systems Developments

James A. Cowling (School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of
Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA), Christopher V. Morgan (PA Consulting Group,
London, UK), Robert Cloutier (School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens
Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA)

The systems engineering discipline has made great strides in developing a
manageable approach to system development. This is predicated on
thoroughly articulating the stakeholder requirements. However, in some
engineering environments, requirements are changing faster than they can
be captured and realized, making this ‘traditional' form of systems
engineering less tenable. An iterative system refinement approach,
characterized by open systems developments, may be a more appropriate and
timely response for fast-changing needs. The open systems development
approach has been utilized in a number of domains including open source
software, Wikipedia®, and open innovation in manufacturing. However, open
systems development appears difficult to recreate successfully, and while
domain tradecraft advice is often available, no engineering management
methodology has emerged to improve the likelihood of success. The authors
discuss the essential features of openness in these three domains and use
them to propose a conceptual framework for the further exploration of the
effect of governance in determining success in such open endeavors. It is
the authors' hope that further research to apply this conceptual framework
to open source software projects may reveal some rudimentary elements of a
management methodology for environments where requirements are highly
uncertain, volatile, or ‘traditional' systems engineering is otherwise
sub-optimal.

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ARTICLE 4

An Agile Project System Dynamics Simulation Model

A. S. White (School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University,
London, UK)

This paper compares established Systems Dynamics (SD) models of software
projects with models of agile development. A new minimal SIMULINK™ agile
project model was created and compared to a Waterfall model of a NASA
project. Results are presented to enable project managers to predict the
performance of future agile project processes. The model includes the time
to generate the requirements and a function to provide requirements
volatility. These models show that for the same productivity and fraction
of errors that are satisfactory, the overall development staff costs are
similar for agile and waterfall projects and the undiscovered rework is
less for the agile project. This model generally supports empirical
observations that shorter time-box iterations yield a shorter overall
project completion.

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For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the
International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
(IJITSA) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in
the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database:
www.igi-global.com/isj.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJITSA:

The primary objective of International Journal of Information Technologies
and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) is to disseminate and discuss high
quality research results on information systems and related upper and
lower level Systems as well as interactions with software engineering,
systems engineering, complex systems, and philosophy of systems sciences
issues through rigorous theoretical, modeling/simulation, engineering, or
behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, predict, explain,
design, evaluate or intervene on organizational systems. Whereas
information systems are the main objects of study, the systems approach –
any variant – is the main research method and philosophical stance used.

Coverage of IJITSA:

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to)
the following:

    Agent-based simulation
    Axiology of systems
    Complex systems foundations
    Complex systems frameworks, models and processes
    Critical heuristics systems
    Critical systems
    Epistemology of systems
    Information security systems
    Mathematical analysis of systems
    Multi-scale analysis
    Ontology of sytems
    Philosophy of systems sciences
    Socio-technical systems
    Soft systems methodology
    System dynamics
    System of systems concepts
    Systemic action research
    Systemic analysis of ISO, IEEE, ANSI, TIA standards
    Systemic business process-oriented frameworks
    Systemic case study
    Systemic conceptual study
    Systemic decision-making models
    Systemic design of IT systems
    Systemic design of service systems
    Systemic design of SoS (System of Systems)
    Systemic design of systems
    Systemic evaluation of IT systems
    Systemic evaluation of software development tools
    Systemic experiments
    Systemic green IT frameworks
    Systemic implementation of IT systems
    Systemic IT service management frameworks
    Systemic IT service management standards (ITIL, ISO 20000, CobIT,
CMMI-SVC, etc)
    Systemic review of ISO, CMMI and IEEE systems engineering standards
    Systemic review of software development agile methods
    Systemic review of software development business process-oriented methods
    Systemic review of software development service-oriented methods
    Systemic risk management
    Systemic service-oriented frameworks
    Systemic software process frameworks (CMMI, ISO 12207, ISO 29110, IEEE
1471, etc)
    Systemic surveys
    Systemic TOEP feasibility studies
    Systems analysis
    Systems design
    Systems engineering frameworks
    Systems evaluation
    Systems simulation
    Total systems intervention
    Viable system models

Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
guidelines
www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-information-technologies-systems/1098