Flexible and Distributed Information Systems Development: State of the Art and Research Challenges.

Author List: Agerfalk, Par J.; Fitzgerald, Brian; Slaughter, Sandra A.;

Information Systems Research, 2009, Volume 20, Issue 3, Page 317-328.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Kieran Conboy on the concept of agility in information systems development, one by Richard Vidgen and Xiaofeng Wang on the enablers and inhibitors of agility, and one by Likoebe M. Maruping, Viswanath Venkatesh, and Ritu Agarwal on the effectiveness of agility methods.

Keywords: agile information systems; distributed information systems development; flexible information systems development; global software development; software development; special issue

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