* Design and Development Methodologies and Frameworks
* Iterative and Incremental Methodologies
* Agile Methodologies
* IS Design and Development as a Component Based Process
* IS Design and Development as Social Negotiation
Process
* IS D Design and Development as a Global and
Distributed Process
* Outsourcing in IS
* Outsourcing Risks, Barriers and Opportunities
* IS Project Management
* IS Quality Management and Assurance
* IS Standards and Compliance Issues
* Risk Management in IS
* Risk Management in IS Design and Development



* Ethical, social, privacy, security and moral issues
in an e-society
* The role of information in the information society
* Myths, taboos and misconceptions in IS
* Practitioner and Research Relationship, Projects and
Links
* Validity, Usefulness and Applicability of IS Academic
ResearchIndustrial Research versus Academic Research Issues
* Industry Innovation and Leadership and Academic
Laggards
* IS consultancy as a profession
* Organisational IS Roles
* Communities of practice and Knowledge Sharing
* Power, Cultural, Behavioural and Political issues