Abstract
Studies concerned with the status of Information Systems Development Methodologies usage in many developing countries including the factors that influence and motivate their use, current trends, difficulties, and barriers to adoption are lacking, especially within the higher education sector. This paper examines these identified gaps in a developing country, namely the United Arab Emirates. The initial findings reveal that there is limited knowledge and understanding of the concept of ISDM in federal higher education institutions in the UAE. This is reflected in the quality of the software products being developed and released. However, the analysed data also reveals a trend whereby federal higher education institutions in the UAE are gradually moving towards increased ISDM adoption and deployment.
Highlights
Despite the arguments about the usefulness of Information Systems Development Methodologies (ISDM), ISDM are expected to be largely used in the current era more than ever before (Avison, 2003)
ISDM are perceived to play a critical role in information system development processes
The findings of this study indicate that a very small percentage of the examined IS units utilize ISDM for their IS development activities, which means that federal higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have a long way to go before achieving standardization of information system development processes
Summary
Despite the arguments about the usefulness of ISDM, ISDM are expected to be largely used in the current era more than ever before (Avison, 2003). A review of literature shows that there is insufficient empirical research on ISDM adoption. A survey of prior studies of ISDM adoption shows clear differences between the number of studies of ISDM adoption that have been undertaken in developed and third/developing countries (Wynekoop & Russo, 1997). The objective of this research is to investigate Information Systems Development Methodologies (ISDM) adoption in the federal higher education sector of a developing country, namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE). An empirical study was conducted by means of a survey, using a questionnaire and a number of face-to-face interviews with Information Systems (IS) managers in federal higher education institutions in the UAE, to empirically examine ISDM practices and ascertain the extent to which there was a need for an ISDM adoption model for these institutions. The Delphi method was undertaken to generate a confirmed list of ISDM adoption variables for decision making
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