A particular strength of agile approaches is that they move away from 'introverted' development and intimately involve the customer in all areas of development, supposedly leading to the development of a more innovative and hence more valuable information system. However, we argue that a single customer representative is too narrow a focus to adopt and that involvement of stakeholders beyond the software development itself is still often quite weak and in some cases non-existent. In response, we argue that current thinking regarding innovation in agile development needs to be extended to include multiple stakeholders outside the business unit. This paper explores the intra-organisational applicability and implications of open innovation in agile systems development. Additionally, it argues for a different perspective of project management that includes collaboration and knowledge-sharing with other business units, customers, partners, and other relevant stakeholders pertinent to the business success of an organisation, thus embracing open innovation principles. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Conboy, K., & Morgan, L. (2010). Future research in agile systems development: Applying open innovation principles within the agile organisation. In Agile Software Development: Current Research and Future Directions (pp. 223–235). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12575-1_11
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