Biography
Research Interests
My research in Information Systems Development Methodology Adoption has introduced a new approach to examining the interrelations between the project stakeholders and the ISD methodology. This new approach has highlighted elements that had previously not been identified. This research has been published in journals and leading academic conferences.
My research strategy is based on two streams of research: Information Systems Development and Information Systems Education.
Within the ISD stream, my research is based on and guided by my PhD work on ineffective learning in the adoption of Agile software development methods.
Also, within the ISD stream I have researched areas outside the domain of my PhD and this has allowed a different strategy where I can collaborate with both internal colleagues and external researchers. The research concentrates on IS methodology adoption tools, and currently I am collaborating with others to further a tool I initially developed. Again, this forms part of my strategy where I collaborate with others who have different research backgrounds which can be brought together with my own. This strategy has lead to the funding of a research project which is currently underway in Ireland and internationally.
The second stream of my research strategy is in Information Systems Education. The research concentrates on IS methodology adoption as a learning tool, and I have developed an award winning learning tool in this area. Currently I am collaborating with others to further this tool through funding received.
A second area within the IS Education stream introduces a further element to my research strategy. The area of storage technology in Information Systems Education is a new field, and my strategy is to collaborate with external academics (initially a US based professor) and industry experts. My research strategy is enabled by my own experience from previous jobs.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2018) | 'A critical realist method for applied business research' McAvoy, J;Butler, T (2018) 'A critical realist method for applied business research'. Journal Of Critical Realism, 17 :160-175 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Analysing ISD performance using narrative networks, routines and mindfulness' Sammon, D,Nagle, T,McAvoy, J (2014) 'Analysing ISD performance using narrative networks, routines and mindfulness'. Information and Software Technology, 56 :465-476 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2014) | 'Using mindfulness to examine ISD agility' J McAvoy, T Nagle, D sammon (2014) 'Using mindfulness to examine ISD agility'. Information Systems Journal, 23 (2):155-172 [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'The role of project management in ineffective decision making within Agile software development projects' McAvoy, J;Butler, T (2009) 'The role of project management in ineffective decision making within Agile software development projects'. European Conference On Information Systems, 18 :372-383 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2013) | 'A novel approach to challenging consensus in evaluations: The Agitation Workshop' McAvoy, John; Nagle, Tadhg; Sammon, David (2013) 'A novel approach to challenging consensus in evaluations: The Agitation Workshop'. Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, 16 (1):45-55 [CORA Link] [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'The Dilution of Effort in Self-Evaluating Development Teams: Agile Loafing' McAvoy, J and Butler, T; (2009) 'The Dilution of Effort in Self-Evaluating Development Teams: Agile Loafing'. Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, 1 (2):141-152 [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'A Failure to Learn by Software developers: Inhibiting the Adoption of an Agile Software Development Methodology' McAvoy, J and Butler, T; (2009) 'A Failure to Learn by Software developers: Inhibiting the Adoption of an Agile Software Development Methodology'. Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 11 (1):23-46 [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'A Successful Failure to Collaborate on Storage Technology Education' McAvoy, J; VanSickle, E; Cameron, B; (2009) 'A Successful Failure to Collaborate on Storage Technology Education'. Journal of Information Technology Education, 5 (4):57-67 [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Project Post-mortems : Mindless Mismanagement of Agreement' McAvoy, J and Butler, T; (2009) 'Project Post-mortems : Mindless Mismanagement of Agreement'. Journal of Decision Systems, 18 (1):53-73 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'A Simple Tool to Assist in Agile Methodology Adoption Decisions' McAvoy, J., Sammon, D. and Owens, I.; (2007) 'A Simple Tool to Assist in Agile Methodology Adoption Decisions'. Journal of Decision Systems, 16 (4):451-468 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'The impact of the Abilene Paradox on double-loop learning in an agile team' McAvoy, J. and Butler, T.; (2007) 'The impact of the Abilene Paradox on double-loop learning in an agile team'. Information and Software Technology, 49 (6):552-563 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'Evaluating the Evaluations: Preconceptions of Project Post- Mortems' McAvoy J.; (2006) 'Evaluating the Evaluations: Preconceptions of Project Post- Mortems'. Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, 9 (2):65-72 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 'Resisting the change to user stories: a trip to Abilene' McAvoy, J. and Butler, T.; (2006) 'Resisting the change to user stories: a trip to Abilene'. International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, 1 (1):48-61 [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'Agile Methodology Adoption Decisions: An Innovative Approach to Teaching and Learning' McAvoy, J. and Sammon, D. (2005) 'Agile Methodology Adoption Decisions: An Innovative Approach to Teaching and Learning'. Journal of Information Systems Education, 16 (4):409-420 [Details] | |
| (2005) | 'A Paradox of Virtual Teams and Change: An Implementation of the Theory of Competing Commitments' McAvoy, J. and Butler, T.; (2005) 'A Paradox of Virtual Teams and Change: An Implementation of the Theory of Competing Commitments'. International Journal of eCollaboration, 2 (3):1-24 [Details] |
Conference Publications
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2018) | Irish Academy of Management Lane, D., Renwick, R., McAvoy, J. & O'Reilly, P. (2018) Voice-based User Interface vs Text-based User Interface: Comparing percieved usability of two natural language processor (NLP) based question answer (QA) systems Irish Academy of Management [Details] | |
| (2018) | Irish Academy of Management Dooley, S., McAvoy, J. & O'Reilly, P. (2018) Bang! Bang! You’re dead! Disrupting the Traditional Wealth Management framework Irish Academy of Management [Details] | |
| (2017) | ECIS 2017 J McAvoy, T Butler (2017) Causal Framework through Retroduction and Retrodiction ECIS 2017 [Details] | |
| (2012) | ECIS 2012: 20th European Conference on Information Systems Sammon, David; Nagle, Tadhg; McAvoy, John (2012) The ISD Process as a 'Live Routine': The Mindless Behaviours of a Narrative Network ECIS 2012: 20th European Conference on Information Systems Esade, Barcelona, Spain, , 11-JUN-12 - 13-JUN-12 [CORA Link] [Details] | |
| (2011) | PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION Sammon, D;Nagle, T;McAvoy, J (2011) The ISD Process as a Live Routine PROCEEDINGS OF THE 5TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION , pp.428-435 [Details] | |
| (2009) | INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES IN PRACTICE, THEORY AND EDUCATION, VOLS 1AND 2 McAvoy, J;Butler, T (2009) A Failure to Learn in a Software Development Team: The Unsuccessful Introduction of an Agile Method INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT: CHALLENGES IN PRACTICE, THEORY AND EDUCATION, VOLS 1AND 2 , pp.1-13 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2012) | The 6th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation McAvoy, J., Nagle, T. and Sammon, D. (2012) Breaking Consensus in IS Evaluations: The Agitation Workshop . In: Tadhg Nagle eds. The 6th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation University College Cork, , 13-SEP-12 - 14-SEP-12 , pp.203-210 [Details] | |
| (2011) | ECIS 2011: 19th European Conference on Information Systems Nagle, Tadhg; McAvoy, John; Sammon, Dave (2011) Utilising Mindfulness to Analyse Agile Global Software Development ECIS 2011: 19th European Conference on Information Systems Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, , 09-JUN-11 - 11-JUN-11 [CORA Link] [Details] | |
| (2011) | ECIME 2011: 5th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation - Como, Italy Sammon, David; Nagle, Tadhg; McAvoy, John (2011) The ISD Process as a 'Live Routine' . In: Castelnovo, Walter; Ferrar, Elena eds. ECIME 2011: 5th European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation - Como, Italy Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università dell'Insubria, Como, Italy, , 08-SEP-11 - 09-SEP-11 , pp.428-435 [CORA Link] [Details] | |
| (2009) | The 3rd European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME 2009) Sammon, D; McAvoy, J; Owens, I; (2009) Agile Teams: Reflective Debate and Shared Understanding The 3rd European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME 2009) University of Gothenburg, Sweden, , 17-SEP-09 - 18-SEP-09 [Details] | |
| (2009) | 3rd European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation Sammon, D and McAvoy, J and Owens, I; (2009) Agile Teams: Reflective Debate and Shared Understanding 3rd European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation Gothenburg, Sweden, , pp.535-543 [Details] | |
| (2008) | International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008) Owens, I., Sammon, D. and McAvoy, J.; (2008) A Sense-Making Approach to Agile Method Adoption International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008) Porto Portugal, 2008, , 05-AUG-08 - 08-AUG-08 [Details] | |
| (2008) | 28th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Butler, T., McAvoy, J. and Murphy, C.; (2008) Social Inclusion and IT Education: An Institutional Analysis / Insertion Sociale et Éducation aux TIC: Une Analyse Institutionnelle 28th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) ICIS, Paris, France, , pp.1-12 [Details] | |
| (2007) | 16th International Conference on Information Systems Development McAvoy, J. and Butler, T.; (2007) A failure to learn in a software development team: The unsuccessful introduction of an Agile method 16th International Conference on Information Systems Development Berlin, Germany, 2007, , 29-AUG-07 - 31-AUG-07 , pp.1-13 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 14th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) McAvoy, J., Owens, I. and Sammon, D; (2006) Towards the Development of a Simple Tool to assist in Agile Methodology Adoption Decisions: Agile Adoption Matrix 14th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) University of Götenborg, Götenborg Sweden, , 12-MAY-06 - 14-MAY-06 , pp.596-607 [Details] | |
| (2006) | 14th European Conference on Information Systems McAvoy, J., and Butler, T. ; (2006) Looking for a place to hide: A study of social loafing in Agile teams 14th European Conference on Information Systems University of Gothenburg, Sweden 2006, , 12-MAY-06 - 14-MAY-06 , pp.2101-2110 [Details] | |
| (2005) | 5th International Business Information Management Academy Conference McAvoy, J; (2005) A pre-mortem on post-mortems 5th International Business Information Management Academy Conference NY, USA 2005, , pp.1092-1098 [Details] | |
| (2005) | 4th International Business Information Management McAvoy, J. and Butler, T. ; (2005) A little information can be a dangerous thing for software developers 4th International Business Information Management NY, USA. 2005, , 13-DEC-05 - 15-DEC-05 , pp.102-109 [Details] | |
| (2005) | 13th European Conference on Information Systems McAvoy, J. and Butler, T. ; (2005) A paradox of the change to User Stories: The application of the theory of Competing Commitments 13th European Conference on Information Systems University of Regensburg, German 2005, , 26-MAY-05 - 28-MAY-08 , pp.1-12 [Details] | |
| (2004) | 9th United Kingdom Academy on Information Systems (UKAIS) McAvoy, J. and Sammon, D; (2004) An Innovative Approach to Learning and Teaching around Agile Methodology Adoption Decisions 9th United Kingdom Academy on Information Systems (UKAIS) Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow Scotland, , 05-MAY-04 - 07-MAY-04 [Details] | |
| (2004) | 11th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation ECITE Heavin, C., McAvoy, J. and Neville, K; (2004) Knowing the Knower: A Systems Development Case Study 11th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation ECITE , 11-NOV-04 - 12-NOV-04 , pp.175-182 [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2011) | 'Collaboration between Academia and Industry: A Change in Approach' McAvoy, J. VanSickle, E. Cameron, B (2011) 'Collaboration between Academia and Industry: A Change in Approach' In: Tomei, L (eds). Online Courses and ICT in Education: Emerging Practices and Applications. PA, USA: IGI. [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'A Paradox of Virtual Teams and Change: An Implementation of the Theory of Competing Commitments' McAvoy, J and Butler, T; (2009) 'A Paradox of Virtual Teams and Change: An Implementation of the Theory of Competing Commitments' In: E-Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies,Tools, and Applications. PA, USA: Information Science Reference. [Details] | |
| (2009) | 'Competing Commitments Theory' McAvoy, J and Butler, T; (2009) 'Competing Commitments Theory' In: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Theoretical Models in Information Systems. PA, USA: Information Science Reference. [Details] | |
| (2008) | 'The desire for cohesion in virtual teams: Be careful what you wish for' McAvoy, J. and Butler, T; (2008) 'The desire for cohesion in virtual teams: Be careful what you wish for' In: Virtual Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. PA, USA: Information Science Reference. [Details] | |
| (2008) | 'Agile Methodology Adoption' McAvoy, J. and Sammon, D. ; (2008) 'Agile Methodology Adoption' In: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (2nd edition). Idea Group Publishing, Pennsylvania USA: Idea Group Publishing, Pennsylvania USA. [Details] | |
| (2008) | 'Ineffective Decision Making in Adopting an Agile Software Development Methodology' McAvoy, J. and Butler, T.; (2008) 'Ineffective Decision Making in Adopting an Agile Software Development Methodology' In: Encyclopedia of Decision Making and Decision Support Technologies. PA, USA: Information Science Reference. [Details] | |
| (2007) | 'The desire for cohesion in virtual teams: Be careful what you wish for' McAvoy J. and Butler, T.; (2007) 'The desire for cohesion in virtual teams: Be careful what you wish for' In: E-Collaboration in Modern Organizations: Initiating and Managing Distributed Projects. PA, USA: Information Science Reference. [Details] |
Published Reports
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2006) | A Report to the Diploma in Applied Business Computing Executive Steering Committee. Butler, T., McAvoy, J., McGrath, G., O¿Dwyer, J. and Coffey, D. ; (2006) A Report to the Diploma in Applied Business Computing Executive Steering Committee. . [Details] |
Professional Activities
Employment
| Employer | Position | From / To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department/Research Centre UCC | Lecturer - Business Information Systems | 01-NOV-02 / | |
| Motorola | Team Leader | 01-JUN-99 / 01-JUN-02 | |
| EMC | Operating Systems Specialist | 01-JUN-96 / 01-JUN-99 | |
| ICL Training | Principal UNIX Lecturer | 01-JUN-93 / 01-JUN-96 |
Education
| Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | UCC | PHD | Information Systems | |
| 2000 | UCC | MSc | Computer Science | |
| 1991 | NUIG | BE | Industrial Engineering and Information Systems |
Other Activities
| Description | |
|---|---|
Presentation to two Masters classes and assessment of one Masters classes in Cranfield University UK, 2008. | |
Presentation to two Masters classes in Cranfield University UK, 2007. | |
Presentation to two Masters classes in Cranfield University UK, 2006. |