Agile development in bureaucratic environments: A literature review

  • Gerald Onwujekwe
  • , Heinz Weistroffer

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    3 Scopus citations

    Abstract

    For the past decade, agile development approaches have achieved a good level of success. It does appear however that not all development environments have the same level of agile readiness, hence an organization’s prevalent culture may be a mismatch with the agile development approach adopted. In this paper, we report on a structured literature review of information systems development projects that were conducted in a public sector or government organization. We posit that public sector and government organizations are commonly found to be bureaucratic in nature and we investigate how this impacts the project implementation using agile methodology. We document the challenges encountered in implementing these projects and some approaches to resolving these challenges.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInformation Systems - 15th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference, EMCIS 2018, Proceedings
    EditorsMarinos Themistocleous, Marinos Themistocleous, Paulo Rupino da Cunha
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages316-330
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Print)9783030113940
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2019
    Event15th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2018 - Limassol, Cyprus
    Duration: Oct 4 2018Oct 5 2018

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
    Volume341
    ISSN (Print)1865-1348

    Conference

    Conference15th European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems, EMCIS 2018
    Country/TerritoryCyprus
    CityLimassol
    Period10/4/1810/5/18

    Keywords

    • Agile development
    • Bureaucracy
    • Government
    • Literature review
    • Projects
    • Public sector

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