Method rationale in method engineering and use

Oinas-Kukkonen, Harri

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35080-6_6

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“…This means that scholars have invested a lot of effort into understanding and explaining what an ISDM is. Hence, there exist a number of definitions [1,8,30,31,38,41,44,58]. However, Karlsson and Ågerfalk concluded [38] that although these definitions are slightly different, there seems to be a shared understanding that an ISDM has three main parts; concepts, activities and notations.…”

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Cargo Cults in Information Systems Development: A Definition and an Analytical Framework

Mäki-Runsas

Wistrand

Karlsson

2019

Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation

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Organizations today adopt agile information systems development methods (ISDM), but many do not succeed with the adoption process and in achieving desired results. Systems developers sometimes fail in efficient use of ISDM, often due to a lack of understanding the fundamental intentions of the chosen method. In many cases organizations simply imitate the behavior of others without really understanding why. This conceptual paper defines this phenomenon as an ISDM cargo cult behavior and proposes an analytical framework to identify such situations. The concept of cargo cults originally comes from the field of social anthropology and has been used to explain irrational, ritualistic imitation of certain behavior. By defining and introducing the concept in the field of information systems development we provide a diagnostic tool to better understand one of the reasons why ISDM adoption sometimes fail.

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