The Antecedents of IS Software Development Team Flexibility - Research in Progress
Yuzhu Li, James J. Jiang, Gary L. Klein · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2007
Information Systems Development Project (ISDP) team flexibility is essential for managing technological and business changes (Lee and Xia 2005).Although software development flexibility has been explored in IS and Software Engineering literature, limited attention has been given to how the ISDP team flexibility affects IS project performance.Drawing from the manufacturing flexibility literature and capability development perspective, this paper proposes that ISDP team flexibility can enhance a team's problem solving competency -which has positive impact on project performance.A survey method is underway to collect empirical evidence for this model.Implications for both research and practice are discussed.