ICIS 2018, pp. 1–17 · 2018

Journey Towards Agility: Three Decades of Research on Agile Information Systems Development

Best Paper Nomination

Diegmann, P., Dreesen, T., Binzer, B., Rosenkranz, C.

A map of the agile information systems development field and its open questions, plus a methodological template for combining manual and computational literature analysis.

My role: first and corresponding author. Designed and executed the review protocol, led classification, synthesis and writing.

Study

A structured literature review of 775 papers (569 journal articles, 206 conference papers) on agile information systems development, combining manual coding with LDA topic modelling.

Why it matters in practice

Practitioners and researchers get one map of three decades of agile ISD work, with the open questions that remain.