Chaos Rules OK: Between Stability and Instability – Agile Information System Development in Practice
Speaker: Professor Karlheinz Kautz, Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
When: 2008-04-11 10:00:00
Venue: Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Science 1 – N34_0.04
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Abstract:Agile information systems development is not well understood and suffers from
a lack of sustainable theories, which are based on empirical research of
practice. We use a framework that focuses on the ‘edge of chaos’ as the area
where agile information systems development takes place to fill in this gap.
Our study identifies for a concrete project under investigation where the
beneficial balance between stability and instability lies. It discusses the
circumstances which influence this balance and the relationships of the
elements which constitute it.
To assist in arrangements please RSVP your attendance to Rebecca Bailey on
3735 3757 or email: r.bailey@griffith.edu.au
Biography:Karlheinz Kautz, Dr philos is Professor in Systems Development & Software
Engineering in the Department of Informatics at the Copenhagen Business
School, Denmark. Prof Kautz also holds a visiting professorship at the School
of Information Systems, Technology & Management at the University of New South
Wales. Previously he has been employed as a senior researcher at the Norwegian
Computing Centre and as a lecturer at universities in Germany, Norway, England
and Denmark. He has been the chair of the IFIP TC8 WG 8.6 on Diffusion,
Transfer, and Implementation of Information Technology; and until just
recently Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems
(SJIS). His research interests are in systems development and methodologies
for advanced application areas, the diffusion and adoption of information
technology innovations, the organizational impact of IT, knowledge management
and software quality and process improvement. He has published widely in
journals such as European Journal of IS, Information Systems Journal, Journal
of Information Technology, Information Technology & People, and the
Scandinavian Journal of IS.
Type: IIIS seminar
Contact:, seminar host (r.bailey@griffith.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)