Kieran Conboy is a Professor in Business Information Systems in the School of Business & Economics and is a co-Principal Investigator in the Lero Irish Software research centre. He previously worked for Accenture Consulting and the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is also on the board of the Irish Research Council.
Kieran teaches information systems innovation, agile and lean project management, portfolio management, and contemporary models such as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. He has advised and published widely in the areas of management and workplace innovation, and particularly in the area of agile and lean processes in software organisations. He has worked with organisations such as Microsoft, Atlassian, Cisco Systems, Suncorp, and Fidelity Investments, as well as many SMEs. Kieran has also advised international public sector organisations in the health and education sectors. He is the Principal Investigator of a Science Foundation Ireland project in the area, involving 11 research fellows and Ph.D researchers, and has received over 8m in research grants from industry, the European Commission, Enterprise Ireland and the Irish Research Council.
Kieran has published over 150 articles in leading international journals and conferences including Information Systems Research, the European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, the Journal of the AIS, IEEE Software, the International Conference in Information Systems and the European Conference in Information Systems. He is an editor of the European Journal of Information Systems and has chaired international conferences in his field.
Kieran also advises on funding agency policy and practice and has advised the E.U. Commission as well as national funding bodies in Ireland, the U.S. and Australia. He is now leading an Irish Research Council funded project to adapt, implement and validate the use of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing techniques in the grant award policies and mechanisms of Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland as well as the IRC.
Kieran was also a Fulbright award recipient in 2009 where he spent time at Carnegie Mellon University working with the Software Engineering Institute on the business value of IT systems.
Publications
2024
Conboy, Kieran, Kreps, David, Lynn, Theo, Rosati, Pierangelo.
2024.
Digital Sustainability: Key Definitions and Concepts.
In: Digital Sustainability: Leveraging Digital Technology to Combat Climate Change, 1{textendash}24, Springer Nature Switzerland.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-61749-2_1.
Conboy, Kieran, Dey, Tapajit, Fitzgerald, Brian, Healy, Robert, Lewzey, Edwin.
2024.
Comparing Stability and Sustainability in Agile Systems.
In: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, Springer Nature Switzerland.
2023
Bergener, Katrin, Chandra Kruse, Leona, Conboy, Kieran, Lundstr{"o}m, Jenny, Maedche, Alexander, Sarker, Suprateek, Seeber, Isabella, Stein, Armin, T{o}mte, Cathrine.
2023.
Understanding the Digital Companions of Our Future Generation.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.05218.
Carroll, Noel, Conboy, Kieran, Hassan, Nik, Hess, Thomas, Junglas, Iris, Morgan, Lorraine.
2023.
Problematizing Assumptions on Digital Transformation Research in the Information Systems Field.
Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
Conboy, Kieran, Dey, Tapajit, Fitzgerald, Brian, Healy, Robert.
2023.
A Novel Technique to Assess Agile Systems for Stability.
In: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, Springer Nature Switzerland.
Conboy, Kieran, Gundelsby, Jan Henrik, Moe, Nils, Stray, Viktoria.
2023.
The Future of Hybrid Software Development: Challenging Current Assumptions.
IEEE Software, 40, 26-33.
doi: 10.1109/MS.2022.3230449.
Carroll, N, Conboy, K, Wang, X.
2023.
From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation.
Journal of Information Technology.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/02683962231164428.
2022
Conboy, Kieran, Dennehy, Denis, O'Connor, Mairead.
2022.
Time is of the essence: a systematic literature review of temporality in information systems development research.
Information Technology & People, 36.
doi: 10.1108/ITP-11-2019-0597.
Conboy, Kieran, Doyle, Ronan, Kreps, David.
2022.
An Interdisciplinary Review of Ephemerality for Information Systems Research.
In: Co-creating for Context in the Transfer and Diffusion of IT, Springer International Publishing.
Conboy, Kieran, Mikalsen, Marius, Moe, Nils, Tkalich, Anastasiia, Ulfsnes, Rasmus.
2022.
Digital Transformation: A Flow Perspective.
Conboy, Kieran, Edison, Henry, Wang, Xiaofeng.
2022.
Comparing Methods for Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 48, 2709-2731.
doi: 10.1109/TSE.2021.3069039.
2020
Conboy, K, Gleasure, R, Morgan, L.
2020.
When crowds play god: a Promethean perspective on crowdfunding.
European Journal of Information Systems.
doi: 10.1080/0960085X.2020.1860655.
Conboy, Kieran, Dennehy, Denis, Krogstie, John, Mikalef, Patrick.
2020.
Using business analytics to enhance dynamic capabilities in operations research: A case analysis and research agenda.
European Journal of Operational Research.
doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.06.051.
Byrne, Stephen, Conboy, Kieran, Dennehy, Denis, Griva, Anastasia.
2020.
Software Requirements Quality: Using Analytics to Challenge Assumptions at Intel.
IEEE Software, PP.
doi: 10.1109/MS.2020.3043868.
Contact Details
University of Galway