Developing the agile is development practices in large-scale it projects: The trust-mediated organizational controls and it project team capabilities perspectives

Journal of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 722-756

  Goh, Jenson Chong Leng ^a   Pan, Shan L ^b   Zuo, Meiyun ^c  

^a SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Agile ISD practice; Case study; ISD agility; Organizational control; Project management; Trust

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

AGILE ISD PRACTICE; CASE-STUDIES; DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES; IS DEVELOPMENT; ISD AGILITY; IT PROJECT; LARGE-SCALES; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROLS; PROJECT TEAM; TRUST;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84891397635     PISSN: 15583457     EISSN: 15369323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00348     Document Type: Article

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