This paper presents a longitudinal case study at Smartner Information Systems, a small software product company operating in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Smartner successfully combines flexibility and control in their product development process. Flexibility is gained with monthly sprints, after which new decisions about project scope can be made in planning the following sprint. Contro...

As Information Systems Development (ISD) organisations face increasing market demands, ISD strategies such as Agile development and Global Systems Development (GSD) have been employed to help address these demands. With anecdotal evidence pointing to substantially successful implementations, organisations are beginning to embrace the combination of these seemingly orthogonal strategies with ben...

This paper provides an account of the project TEMPORA, run from 1989 to 1994 and sponsored by the European Union, in which the Swedish Institute for Systems Development (SISU) and the research institute SINTEF from Norway were two of the partners. The project aimed at developing a prototypical systems development environment that involved the time dimension and it was based on the explicit repr...