Abstract: As agile systems development methods can be viewed from a disruptive technology perspective, what have we learned from the perturbation? Our perspective does not focus on how agility changed existing methods, but rather on what changes in the environment precipitated agile methods and what can be learned about the future of systems development from these changes. In this paper, we re-conceptualize systems development methods from both a service-dominant logic perspective and from the perspective of the co-creation of value between the systems developer and the customer during the systems development life cycle (SDLC). In software development, value co-creation happens in the form of meeting customer needs as well as the creation of new operant resources. We provide a new conceptualization of systems development method selection based on these ideas and illustrate some implications from both the S-DL and Co-creation perspectives. This conceptualization should afford new areas for future research which assumes that agile vs. plan-driven methodology choice is a false dichotomy.

Keywords: curriculum development, disruptive technology, innovation, Mobile applications

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Recommended Citation: Babb, J. S., Abdullat, A. (2012). The Need for Mobile Application Development in IS Curricula: An Innovation and Disruptive Technologies Perspective. Information Systems Education Journal, 10(1) pp 61-74. http://isedj.org/2012-10/ ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2011)