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Title:
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND THE SIMPT 2.0 CASE: HOW TO TURN AN ANTICIPATED FAILURE INTO A SUCCESS |
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Author(s):
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Tommaso Federici, Umberto Crisalli, Danilo Scerbo, Alessio Maria Braccini |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-83-0 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes, Pedro Isaías and Philip Powell |
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Year:
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2013 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Project failures, Technical experts, Final users, Agile development, Transport IS, DSS development |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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87 |
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Last Page:
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94 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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This paper discusses the experience of the project for upgrading and extending a DSS of huge extent and complexity, devoted to transport management, which is still a neglected domain for IS research. This DSS belongs to an Italian Ministry and the project had the form of a public contract. For many reasons, this project was long-lasting and much troubled, and when approaching the testing phase it could have been considered failed. A case investigation through an action research reveals that drastic changes in project organization (actors composition and interaction), and in methodology (from waterfall to agile-like methods), adopted even in this late phase of the development process, contributed to turn an anticipated project failure into a success. |
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