From Software Risks to Sustainable Information Systems: Setting the Stage for a Delphi Study in Nigeria

Mursu, Anja; Soriyan, Abimbola; Olufokunbi, K.C.; Korpela, Mikko

doi:10.1080/1097198x.1999.10856259

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“…But the importance of these factors varied significantly across the countries. The Delphi survey of Schmidt et al (1996) was repeated by Anja Mursu (1999) in Nigeria and by Shan et al (2009) in China. These studies produced rank list of software risk factors which are significantly different from the Schmidt study.…”

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confidence: 99%

Software Development Project Risk

Thomas

Bhasi

2012

International Journal of Information Technology Project Management

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Software development risk points to an aspect of a development task, process or environment which, if ignored, tends to adversely affect the project performance. Observations from literature show that while many studies on software project risk construct have been done in developed countries, there is scarcity of literature from Asian countries, especially India. Hence, this research was formulated with an objective of studying software development project risk in the Indian context. Data related to the presence of risk items was collected from 527 software development projects in India. This data was factor analyzed to identify five major risk dimensions namely Team risk, Project planning and Execution Risk, External risk, User risk and Project complexity risk. The resulting factor structure was validated through Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Software project risk was seen to be best represented by a second order factor model with five first order factors.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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Software Development Project Risk

Thomas

Bhasi

2012

International Journal of Information Technology Project Management

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“…Moreover, while they all do publish a few papers with societal topics, these do not seem to be core. (Braa et al, 2001;Idowu, Alu, and Adagunodo, 2002;Mbarika, 2002;Mbarika et al, 2003;Mbile, DeGrande, and Okon, 2003;Soriyan et al, 2001;Splettstoesser and Kimaro, 2000;Yavwa and Kritzinger, 2001) (Odedra-Straub, 1993) (Mbarika et al, 2002b) (Hasan and Ditsa, 1999;Wresch, 2003) (Splettstoesser and Towry-Coker, 1999) (Mursu et al, 1999) (Darley, 2001) (Okunoye and Karsten, 2002) (Brown and Licker, 2003;Mbarika et al, 2002a;Okoli and Mbarika, 2003) South African (Miller and Doyle, 1987;Money, Tromp, and Wegner, 1988) (Brown, 2002;Cloete, Courtney, and Fintz, 2002;Fleming, 2002;Licker, 2001; ( Karlsbjerg, Damsgaard, and Scheepers, 2003) ( Erwin and Blewett, 1999) North African (Nidumolu et al, 1996) ( Chandani and Breton, 2001; ( Hill et al, 1998;Kamel, 1995;Khalil and Elkordy, 1997;…”

Section: Ssa Research In Key Information Systems Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Software Industry. The "lost continent of the information technologies" has fewer computers and lower ICT expenditure per capita than any geographically comparable region (Mursu et al, 1999;Odedra et al, 1993 p. 25). Similarly, there are few schools with computer science programs to develop an indigenous base of software developers.…”

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The Neglected Continent of IS Research: A Research Agenda for Sub-Saharan Africa

Datta¹,

Byrd²,

Okoli³

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JAIS

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Research with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a major region within the world's second largest continent, is almost non-existent in mainstream information systems research. Although infrastructures for information and communication technology (ICT) are well established in the more developed and industrialized parts of the world, the same is not true for developing countries. Research on developing countries has been rare in mainstream IS and, even where existent, has often overlooked the particular situation of SSA, home to 33 of the world's 48 least-developed countries. Ironically, it is such parts of the world that can stand to gain the most from the promise of ICT with applications that would help the socioeconomic development of this region. In this study, we present the need for focused research on the ICT development and application for SSA. The information systems research community has a unique and valuable perspective to bring to the challenges this region faces in developing its ICT infrastructure,

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“…Optimally, IS researchers and practitioners will engage in joint action research projects to simultaneously study and develop ISD as a work activity. We have published elsewhere such a long-term research programme to study the special requirements of ISD in the severely constrained context of Nigeria, and to ultimately produce "Made in Nigeria" systems development methods and practices which are better adjusted to the specific requirements in question than the "universal" methods found in ISD literature (Korpela et al 2000 b;Mursu et al 1999;Mursu et al 2000;Soriyan et al 1999).…”

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confidence: 99%