This is older, but I’ve seen Jones referenced for software risk. The book tries to be a comprehensive look at risk in MIS software development (for the period). Specific to feature creep, Chapter 9 is a description of Creeping User Requirements. Read More …
IT identity (Carter & Grover 2015) is conceived as a new form of material identity, citing this chapter in the Handbook of Self and Identity, so I wanted to review it. Dittmar offers seven functions of material identities, and I try to explore how those functions applied to technology development. Read More …
The introductory chapter to the Handbook of Identity Theory and Research, which provides an overview of the domain. Read More …
Clayton’s work on environmental identity is foundational to the development of IT identity. Read More …
This book synthesizes a good deal of earlier work from Burke, Stets, and other colleagues on the development and exploration of identity in sociology. Read More …
While the “identity” part of this work isn’t strongly grounded in any identifiable formal theory, the authors do provide some information that supports the position that game workers and the game development environment differs from other forms of IT development. Read More …
The authors model an alternative to the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) specifically for hedonic software. If user acceptance of the software doesn’t follow established MIS models, shouldn’t we apply the same sort of scrutiny to the creation of that software? Read More …
Bill Swann developed Self-Verification Theory, which “assumes that stable self-views provide people with a crucial source of coherence and continuity” and that “people strive to avoid [being perceived in an incongruent manner] by entering into and creating social worlds that confirm their self-views.” Read More …
The authors suggest culturally influenced approaches to software: “Unlike the prevalent form of computer science, whose development has been strongly shaped by the United States and the military interests dominant there, the Scandinavian Approach … is explicitly geared … for the benefit of human beings, in pursuance of the overriding goals of humanization and democratization.” Read More …
This is project management from the Organization Theory perspective. The material feels dated and a bit alien, challenging concepts from that domain which I’ve never considered or encountered in the wild. It may help me understand older PM literature, though. Read More …