Deployment of systems development methodologies: Perceptual congruence between IS managers and systems developers

Information and Management

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-49

  Huisman, Magda ^a   Iivari, Juhani ^b  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Developers; Information system development; Managers; Methodologies; Methodology deployment; Perceptual congruence

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MANAGERS; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DEVELOPERS; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; METHODOLOGIES; METHODOLOGY DEPLOYMENT; PERCEPTUAL CONGRUENCE;

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

EID: 29144469015     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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