Management information systems: conceptual foundations, structure, and development (2nd ed.)
Management information systems: conceptual foundations, structure, and development (2nd ed.)
The adoption of radical and incremental innovations: an empirical analysis
Management Science
Emerging roles of the MIS professional: Technocrat or change agent? EUC feature
Journal of Systems Management
Toward more successful project management
Journal of Systems Management
Finding and selecting systems analysts and designers
Journal of Systems Management
The new MIS professional—part 2
Journal of Systems Management
Developing a successful “deskside” manner for systems analysts
Journal of Systems Management
The new MIS professional—part 1
Journal of Systems Management
A social process model of user-analyst relationships
MIS Quarterly
Managing I/S design teams: a control theories perspective
Management Science
Power, politics, and MIS implementation
Communications of the ACM
Information systems and organizational change
Communications of the ACM
Systems Analysis and Design
Information Systems Methodologies; A Framework for Understanding, 2nd Ed.
Information Systems Methodologies; A Framework for Understanding, 2nd Ed.
Elements of Systems Analysis
Selecting the appropriate application development methodology
ACM SIGMIS Database
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Today's systems developer should possess skills to deal with a range of social and technical issues during systems development. However, all developers do not excel in every skill dimension. Some may possess very good people skills but only average technical skills, while others may possess very good technical and functional skills but only average people and political skills. Furthermore, all IS projects are not the same. They may differ on dimensions such as size, number of users, user comprehension of tasks, degree of integration, and degree of change. Therefore, the mix of skills needed for successfully completing each project may be different depending upon the nature of the project.This paper highlights the importance of skills in assigning developers to system projects. A proper matching of project skill requirements and developers should lead to a more effective use of development resources. Towards this end key developers' skills and core IS project characteristics are identified. Based on these skills and project characteristics, an approach is proposed for assigning systems developers to IS projects to effectively utilize the systems development staff. Furthermore, the proposed approach can also provide useful suggestions for training existing developers and recruiting additional staff.