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CMIT VAIS - Agility in Information Systems Development* "NOT ESTABLISHED"

Faculty
prof. Karlheinz Kautz
Course Coordinator
prof. Karlheinz Kautz
Prerequisite/progression of the course
The course is primarily directed to students who hold a bachelor degree in information systems like Ha (it) or a similar field such as Ba (im).
Course content, structure and teaching
The course will introduce and analyze the concept of agility in information systems and information systems development. The course will consist of 6 sessions with 4 lecture hours. In each session the lecture will introduce a facet of agility. This facet will be critically discussed by the students as on student presentations of the selected literature. In a mini project the students individually or in groups are gathering data from industrial projects which they analyze with regard to the conceptual elements of agility
The course's development of personal competences
The course should enable the students to act co-operatively in an academic environment, to develop skills to constructively formulate arguments and to react likewise on critique and arguments expressed by others
Learning Objectives
Despite the popularity of agile information systems development methods and their increasing adoption through organizations it is still unclear what agility in information systems and information systems development is and how it is achieved. The objective of the course is to clarify the theoretical concept of agility and its elements and to compare it in critical analysis with industrial practice in the Danish IT industry.
To achieve the mark 12 the students shall be able:
  • to explain fundamental differences between agile methods and traditional methods in information systems development
  • to apply the different conceptual elements of agility in information systems development and document it in an empirical project
  • to reflect upon the strengths and weaknesses of the facets of agility introduced in the course
Type of examination, exam aids and assessment
Oral exam (20 min) on the basis of a mini project (individual or group). Max. 10 A4-pages per individual project. Max. 15 A4-pages for groups of 2-5 students
Recommended literature
Abrahamsson, P., Conboy, K., & Xiaofeng, W. (2009). 'Lots Done, More to Do': The Current State of Agile Systems Development Research. European Journal of Information Systems, 18(4), 281-284.

K. Conboy, Agility from First Principles: Reconstructing the Concept of Agility in Information Systems Development, INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol. 20, No. 3, September 2009, pp. 329-354

Dybå, T., & Dingsøyr, T. (2008). Empirical Studies of Agile Software Development: A Systematic Review. Information & Software Technology, 50(9-10), 833-859.
Highsmith, J. Agile Software Development Ecosystems, Addison-Wesley, Boston (Mass.), 2002.
K. Kautz, S.Madsen, Understanding Agile Software Development in Practice, In proceedings of the International Conference of Information Resources Management , Montego Bay, Jamaica, May 2010
Turk, D., France, R., Rumpe, B. “Limitations of Agile Software Processes”, in Proceedings ofThird International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy, 2002.

R. Vidgen, X. Wang, Coevolving Systems and the Organization of Agile Software Development, INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH, Vol. 20, No. 3, September 2009, pp. 355-376


Last updated by The Electives office 22/06/2010