Potential pitfalls in packaged software adoption

Politics in packaged software implementation

The academic literature relating to the political issues of information systems is fairly well established. However, there are relatively few empirical studies relating to the political issues associated with the organisational implementation of package software. The aim of this paper is to offer a modest contribution via case study research with an analysis of a packaged software implementatio...

Software Architecture: Practise, Potential, and Pitfalls - Panel Introduction

Software Architecture: Practice, Potential, and Pitfalls Panel Introduction

1 What is software architecture? A critical aspect of the design for any large software system is its gross structure – that is, its high-level organization of computational elements and interactions between those elements [3, 6]. Broadly speaking, we refer to this as the software architectural level of design. Recently software architecture has begun to emerge as an important field of study fo...

A Framework for Managing Packaged Software Development

Packaged software is a multi-billion dollar, rapidly growing industry. To stay competitive, firms in this industry must effectively manage frequent releases of new software versions. In this paper, we propose a model based framework for managing the development of new software releases. This framework links development effort to market share performance via the attractiveness of the software to...

The Social Shaping of Packaged Software Selection

Debra Howcroft University of Manchester [email protected]