Paper Info
Title
Do Agile Managed Information Systems Projects Fail Due To A Lack Of Emotional Intelligence?
Abstract
Agile development methodologies (ADM) have become a widely implemented project management approach in Information Systems (IS). Yet, along with its growing popularity, the amount of concerns raised in regard to human related challenges caused by applying ADM are rapidly increasing. Nevertheless, the extant scholarly literature has neglected to identify the primary origins and reasons of these challenges. The purpose of this study is therefore to examine if these human related challenges are related to a lack of Emotional Intelligence (EI) by means of a quantitative approach. From a sample of 194 agile practitioners, EI was found to be significantly correlated to human related challenges in agile teams in terms of anxiety, motivation, mutual trust and communication competence. Hence, these findings offer important new knowledge for IS-scholars, project managers and human resource practitioners, about the vital role of EI for staffing and training of agile managed IS-projects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/s10796-019-09962-6
INFORMATION SYSTEMS FRONTIERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Agile, Information systems, Project management, Emotional intelligence
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1387-3326
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tan Trung Luong100.34
Uthayasankar Sivarajah26711.43
Vishanth Weerakkody389763.81