A reappraisal of structured analysis: design in an organizational context
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
ACM SIGMIS Database - Special double issue: diffusion of technological innovation
Information Resources Management Journal
Reinventing methodology: who reads it and why?
Communications of the ACM
A guide to manage new software engineering tools
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8 WG8.6 international working conference on diffusion, adoption and implementation of information technology on Facilitating technology transfer through partnership: learning from practice and research
Diversity in information systems action research methods
European Journal of Information Systems
An empirical investigation into the adoption of systems development methodologies
Information and Management
A qualitative model for barriers to software reuse adoption
ICIS '99 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Information Systems
Accommodating Emergent Work Pratices: Ethnographic Choice of Method Fragments
Proceedings of the IFIP TC8/WG8.2 Working Conference on Realigning Research and Practice in Information Systems Development: The Social and Organizational Perspective
Knowledge creation and sharing in a systems development project
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Assessing and improving the front end activities of software development
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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The complex and problematic relationship between software development methods and practices is well documented. Methods are difficult to adopt. There are several barriers toward successfully bringing methods to practice, and practices are, by the end of the day, quite different from method prescriptions. Methods are, however, continually developed, and organisations spend considerable resources trying to improve practices through adoption of new methods. We know relatively little about the long-term dynamics involved in such adoption efforts. This research reports from a three-year effort within an IT department of a large multinational company in which a new method was first introduced, then used to support organisation-wide projects, and subsequently extended based on emerging practices. The study applies two complementary knowledge management perspectives networks and networking to interpret the experiences from the case. The study reveals how method perceptions and approaches shift radically through different stages of software method adoption.