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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>AMCIS 2014 CFP: Mini-Track: Contemporary Issues in Agile Development<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Track: Systems Analysis and Design<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Savannah, Georgia, USA, August 7-10, 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'>Agile manifesto, which introduced agile methodologies, is now more than a decade old. During this period, these methodologies have seen increased acceptance among software developers. This brings to the fore a number of research issues—adoption and/or adaptation of agile methods, agile project management, social aspects of agile development, distributed agile development, scalability of agile methodologies, and enterprise agility, to name but a few. The incorporation of myriad practices, particularly those advocated by lean principles, has only rendered the term "agility" more nebulous. Prospective research topics include lean and agile practices and their synergies/differences, and the role of agile/lean principles in facilitating flexible enterprise architectures. Considering the rapid growth of agile development practices, the Project Management Institute (PMI) recently introduced a new certification program focused on agile project management. This is expected to further consolidate and spread the use of agile development. Some illustrative project management aspects of agile development in need of research attention include cost and schedule estimation/planning, resource allocation, risk management, and change control management. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'>This mini-track will provide a forum for researchers to address fundamental issues regarding agile development practices as well as contemporary topics raised by its widespread acceptance and use.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h1>Suggested Topics<o:p></o:p></h1><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Agile project management versus traditional project management<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Knowledge Management in agile development<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>"Agile methods in theory" versus "agile methods in practice"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Decision-making and governance issues of agile development<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Self-organizing principles and practices of agile teams<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Integrating human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts with agile development <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Economics of agile development<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Role of agile methods in large-scale, mission critical systems<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Scalability of agile projects<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Agile development in regulated environments<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Distributed agile development, challenges, risks, and opportunities<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Lean practices in agile development<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Synergies/differences between lean principles and agility <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]>Ability of agile practices to deal with project disruptions<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submit your manuscript before March 1, 2014 at <a href="https://email.jyu.fi/OWA/redir.aspx?C=jSxrK-TxHUiZuaGtzA5OZl2eVaUu6dAIrhBwka1UHXikugIj7DV7No_RfqqP6noPSph-dXCnzeg.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fmc.manuscriptcentral.com%2famcis2014" target="_blank">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/amcis2014</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Important dates: <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>March 1, 2014 Submission Deadline<br>April 4, 2014 Author Notification<br>April 18, 2014 Revision Deadline<br>April 25, 2014 Camera Ready Submission Deadline<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=213 valign=top style='width:159.6pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=Author align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>VenuGopal Balijepally<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Affiliation align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Oakland University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Affiliation align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:balijepa@oakland.edu">balijepa@oakland.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=213 valign=top style='width:159.6pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=Author align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Sridhar Nerur<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Affiliation align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>University of Texas Arlington<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Affiliation align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:snerur@uta.edu">snerur@uta.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=213 valign=top style='width:159.6pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=Affiliation align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>