Different perspectives on information systems: problems and solutions
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Understanding and Controlling Software Costs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Managing the software process
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on analysis and modeling in software development
Information systems innovation among organizations
Management Science
The innovator's dilemma: when new technologies cause great firms to fail
The innovator's dilemma: when new technologies cause great firms to fail
Computers and Profits: Quantifying Financial Benefits of Information
Computers and Profits: Quantifying Financial Benefits of Information
Can Internet-Based Applications Be Engineered?
IEEE Software
Organization Science
How organizations adopt information system process innovations: a longitudinal analysis
European Journal of Information Systems
Exploration vs. Exploitation: An Empirical Test of the Ambidexterity Hypothesis
Organization Science
Agility in a small software firm: a sense-and-respond analysis
International Journal of Business Information Systems
Control of Flexible Software Development Under Uncertainty
Information Systems Research
Learning processes in municipal broadband projects: An absorptive capacity perspective
Telecommunications Policy
Factors of stickiness in transfers of know-how between MNC units
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
A decade of agile methodologies: Towards explaining agile software development
Journal of Systems and Software
Journal of Global Information Management
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Information System Development (ISD) agility is concerned with why and how ISD organizations sense and respond swiftly as they develop and maintain Information System applications. We outline a theory of ISD agility that draws upon a model of IT innovation and organizational learning. The theory adopts March's concepts of exploration and exploitation to investigate agility in the context of ISD organizations. Depending on their learning focus, ISD organizations make choices as to what sensing and responding swiftly means. This is reflected in how they value speed in relation to other ISD process goals, including quality, cost, risk and innovative content. The paper examines two specific Research Propositions: (1) ISD organizations locate themselves into different innovation regimes with respect to their need for exploration and exploitation, and (2) their perceptions of agility differ in those regimes as reflected in their process goal priorities. We validate these propositions through an empirical investigation of changes in ISD organizations' process goals and innovation practices over a period of over 4 years (1999-2003), during which time they shied away from exploration to exploitation while innovating with Internet computing. These ISD organizations viewed agility differently during the studied time periods as reflected in how they traded innovative content or speed vis-à-vis the other process goals of cost, risk, and product quality. In conclusion, this paper discusses implications for future research on agility in ISD organizations.