Citation Daniel, S., Midha, V., Bhattacherhjee, A., & Singh, S. (2018). Sourcing knowledge in open source software projects: The impacts of internal and external social capital on project success. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 27(3), 237-256. Notes Their definition of Read More …
I defend my proposal in the morning. I’ve made archival PDFs of the paper and the deck so I have a record. Read More …
Citation Keil, M., Cule, P. E., Lyytinen, K., & Schmidt, R. C. (1998). A Framework for Identifying Software Project Risks. Communications of the ACM, 41(11), 76–83. https://doi.org/10.1145/287831.287843 Notes Keil et al. (1998) and Schmidt et al. (2001) involve the same Read More …
There is a line of research within Project Management that looks at “runaway” IT projects. This research seeks to understand why project teams continue to commit resources to failing projects. It’s referred to as “escalating commitment”” Read More …
I was trying to explain the perils of groupthink and extremely low tolerance for conflict on project teams to my Project Management students. I used the Major’s conversation with Togusa about why they wanted someone with almost no body augmentation Read More …
While I’m not a philosopher and I’ve never seen No Exit performed live, I do know the quote “Hell is other people” comes from this Sartre play. I was hoping to explain the importance of clean, readable code to my Read More …
I’m trying to make the lit review of my problem domain for my dissertation proposal good enough that I can get it published as a stand-alone lit review. One of my advisors suggested a set of papers to read through to get a better idea of how to write good lit reviews. Read More …
This is a research-in-progress paper accepted to the 2019 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2019). Schmalz-Carter-Lee-2019-The-I-in-Team Abstract Software project failure continues to be a concern and managing risk our best hope of project success. While IS literature has investigated Read More …
Citation Barki, H., Rivard, S., & Talbot, J. (1993). Toward an assessment of software development risk. Journal of Management Information Systems, 10(2), 203–225. Other Sources Beath, CM. (1983). Strategies for managing MIS: A transaction cost approach. Proceedings of the Fourth Read More …
A place for me to keep notes from across multiple sources regarding the definition of “feature creep.” Read More …