The decision-making paradigm of organizational design
Management Science
A field study of the software design process for large systems
Communications of the ACM
Function Points in the Estimation and Evaluation of the Software Process
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Technology—process fit: perspectives on achieving prototyping effectiveness
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue on management support systems
A social process model of user-analyst relationships
MIS Quarterly
Diagnosis of an information system failure
Information and Management
Measuring technology flexibility
European Journal of Information Systems
CMM in practice: processes for executing software projects at Infosys
CMM in practice: processes for executing software projects at Infosys
Coping with rapid changes in IT
Communications of the ACM
ERP software implementation: an integrative framework
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue on information systems evaluationpast, present and future
Systems Analysis and Design Methods 5e
Systems Analysis and Design Methods 5e
Software Risk Management: Principles and Practices
IEEE Software
Information Systems Research
Journal of Management Information Systems
Identifying Software Project Risks: An International Delphi Study
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Customising agile methods to software practices at Intel Shannon
European Journal of Information Systems - Including a special section on business agility and diffusion of information technology
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management
A Control Theory Perspective on Agile Methodology Use and Changing User Requirements
Information Systems Research
Software development team flexibility antecedents
Journal of Systems and Software
External social capital and information systems development team flexibility
Information and Software Technology
Journal of Management Information Systems
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The socio-technical perspective suggests that information systems development projects (ISDPs) involve both organizational and technical dimensions. As both the organizational and technical aspects of ISDPs frequently change, the ISDP team's flexibility in responding to these changes has become a critical success factor for system development. While the importance of ISDP team flexibility has increased, the research literature lacks a consistent definition and validated measures of the construct. Drawing upon the socio-technical and the capability-based perspectives and using a systematic multi-stage approach, we identified major business and technology changes and developed measurement scales of ISDP team flexibility along two dimensions: Response Extensiveness and Response Efficiency. The results of a confirmatory factor analysis using survey data from 505 ISDP managers suggested that the final measurement scales exhibited adequate levels of measurement properties including unidimensionality, reliability, discriminant validity, factorial invariance and nomological validity. In addition, our results revealed an interesting negative relationship between Response Extensiveness and Response Efficiency, indicating a trade-off between the two dimensions of flexibility. Our result indicated that while the ISDP teams experienced and responded more extensively to business changes than technology changes, they were much less efficient in dealing with business changes than technology changes.