Literature Survey on Agile Information Systems Development

The principles of agile information systems development (ISD) have become an area of great interest for practice as well as research. So the goal of this literature survey is to validate, update and extend previous reviews in terms of the general state of research on agile ISD. The importance of theory is highlighted by evaluating the theoretical foundations and contributions of former studies besides including categories such as the employed research methods and data collection techniques. Since agile ISD is rooted in the IS as well as software engineering discipline, important outlets of both disciplines are included in the search process. The findings show that quantitative studies and the theoretical underpinnings of agile ISD are lacking. Extreme Programming is still the most researched agile ISD method, and more efforts on Scrum are needed. In addition, multiple research gaps that need further research attention are also identified.