Mindfulness and Agile Software Development

Authors

Sabine Matook, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, AustraliaFollow
Karlheinz Kautz, Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark Information Systems, Technology & Management, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaFollow

Abstract

The field of information systems development (ISD) is still not well understood and suffers from a lack of sustainable theories which are firmly based on research of ISD practice. This is also true for agile software development (ASD). In this paper, we develop a framework based on the theory of mindfulness and map the main characteristics of mindfulness to the most prominent features of ASD. By applying the framework to a case study of ASD practice we demonstrate the relationship between the theory of mindfulness and ASD, and show the usefulness of our framework as a contribution to theorizing about ASD and to a better understanding of ASD in practice.

Recommended Citation

Matook, Sabine and Kautz, Karlheinz, "Mindfulness and Agile Software Development" (2008). ACIS 2008 Proceedings. 58.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2008/58