MIS500: Reflective Portfolio on Agile Implementation in Systems

This reflective portfolio explores the implementation of agile methodologies within information systems, focusing on the dynamic relationship between business environments and technological advancements. The student analyzes the necessity of flexible business policies to accommodate unpredictable changes, particularly in sectors like banking, where ethical considerations and data security are paramount. Through a learning activity table, the portfolio outlines research on crisis management, customer value, and knowledge transfer, highlighting the need for iterative approaches and the importance of adapting to evolving threats. The student emphasizes the significance of an agile approach in information systems, including the benefits of flexibility and the ability to capture new markets, providing insights into the evolution of information systems from back-end support to a core business function. The portfolio underscores the importance of understanding and accepting the ever-changing nature of the business environment to enable successful agile implementation and maintain a competitive edge.

Running head: REFLECTIVE PORTFOLIO
Reflective Portfolio
Topic: Agile Implementation in the Latureae Information System
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Learning Activity Table.........................................................................................................2
Summary of the Learning Journal........................................................................................10
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
Bibliography.............................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Enabling agility in the information system is one of the most discuss about topic of
interest in the system of Information and Technology. Business and information system write
at this point of time are correlating hand in hand, both of the factors are going through a lot of
changes over time. Change is the only constant in both the business environment and in real
life what are the changes in which the business organisations are dealing in at such an
increasing rate that this become absolutely unpredictable. is unpredictability within the
business environment can never suspect whenever a particular change is going to occur and
how the organisation would need to watch itself and be prepared to accept the random
changes in the most rapid way. Many researchers have been ongoing and has been done in
the past as well to find out how the changes in the business environment take place and how
information gets affected with the implementation of unpredictable changes. Introducing an
information system within an organisation means that the particular organisation has to be
prepared for all the upcoming changes in the business environment. Introducing any new
system within an organisation open calls for providing a new policy system within the
organisational policies that are already existing. I would also like to represent this thought in
the learning research papers that I have gone through for my reflective ideas. Therefore,
following would be a reflective portfolio of my thoughts about the researches that I have
gone through and the learning activities that I have performed considering this topic. The
evidence would be listed according to the critical ideas and reflections that I would present
after I have gone through the literatures.
Learning Activity Table
In the following section I would present the learning activities that I have gone
through according to the research topic and for the development of ethical policies regarding

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the implementation of agile information system within an organisation. I would represent my
learning activities, the impact that it has on my thought process and evidence from which I
have collected the ideas, which are the evidences of the researchers of other authors that I
have gone through.
Date Learning Activity Impact Evidence
[Insert
Date]
The implementation of
information system
within an organisation go
through the procedures
for the business processes
modern business
techniques would apply. I
have found that
nowadays the
organisation are only
replying to use the
internet sources and the
information security
services as the primary
source component within
an organisation. The
modified development
and conduction policies
are all based on editing
for revamping the
previous developed
company policies and
implementing the
legislation that are
required within a
business organisation to
handle information and
also being susceptible to
several changes as well.
The implementation of
information security is
extremely important in
several business process
like the banking sector
and therefore the
organisational business
process has to rely on
information system
completely. For business
organisations like this,
With this idea I have
understood that the
business policies also go
through several changes
whenever agile
information system is
implemented within an
organisation. Agile it
translate to the flexibility
of any system, which in
this case must be the
business policies that has
been going through
several changes as
business organisations and
the way to handle the
information systems are
susceptible to constant
changes. Since a business
organisation cannot
predict what the future
will look like and how the
information system and
their security should be
handled, the policies
should also be made in
such a way that it any
flexibility should be
welcomed and there
should be room for the
infiltration of new policies
if there has been any
changes in the way by
which the business
operation used to operate
or manage the information
systems.
Kroener, I., Watson, H.,
& Muraszkiewicz, J.
(2017). Agility in crisis
management information
systems requires an
iterative and flexible
approach to assessing
ethical, legal and social
issues. In ISCRAM.

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like the banking sector,
there should be separate
ethical rules and business
policies set different as it
only deals with the
information and
transactional details that
must be extremely
confidential. The
confidential information
belongs to the consumers,
customers of the
organisation and also the
information about the
organisation that needs to
be secured. Information
systems has the ability of
handling not just the
intricate details about
customer or an
organisation, but it also
has the reputation of
bringing down an entire
organisation if any kind
of security breaches
compromise the
information. Therefore,
ethical business
operations must be
followed and this should
be clearly represented in
the developed business
policies.
[Insert
Date]
It is essential important
that a business
organisation understands
what an information
system is before
implementing them
within the company
policies. There are
several crisis
management situation as
well for which ethical,
legal and social issues are
also related to the
information system.
There are several terms
and conditions within a
business organisation that
With this learning activity
I understood that it is not
just information system
that needs to be agile
going to the changing
business structure and the
ways by which
information system are
handled, but an
organisational operation
policy is also susceptible
to changes with the
implementation of agile
policies. I understood that
the ethical ways of
handling any information
about the customer order
Hooper, M. J., Steeple,
D., & Winters, C. N.
(2019). Costing
customer value: an
approach for the agile
enterprise. International
Journal of Operations &
Production Management,
21(5/6), 630-644.

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collaborates the effort to
manage the information
system with the
infiltration of agile
information system
development. During this
crisis management
situation the information
system also requires a
flexible approach in the
business policies that
would be much iterative
to assess all the social
issues, ethical issues and
legal issues. There is a
need of every business
organisation to move
from the traditional
business processes and
make room for the
changes within the
business organisation so
that it can offer flexibility
and the responsibility of
accepting or adapting to
the needs of the users and
also the organisation
during the development
of the system as the
business environment
changes. Agility is
identified within an
information system as a
potential to cope up with
the changes that might be
unpredictable. The
unexpected changes
cannot be predicted
before and therefore there
is a requirement within
an organisation to be able
to cope up with the
traditional models and
also keeping the essence
of the traditional models
of the business policies,
enable new business
systems administration
policy by accepting the
changes.
the organisation also
brings about legal and
social issues. For
example, I have seen that
the breaches that often
occur in organisations that
mostly deal with customer
information and
transactional details, not
just bring about legal
implications for the
organisation but socially
for the customer it is
equally impacting
negatively. Later suppose
that the organisation is a
credit card company that
has all the transactional
details and the bank
account data about the
customers and it does not
have a developed policy
of how the business
system should be handled.
However the organisation
is using policies regarding
the traditional ways of
handling information and
also implementing
Information Technology
strategies to manage the
infiltration of huge
amount of customer data.
However, with changing
time the ways by which
security breaches can
happen is also changing as
the technology is getting
much more advanced. the
hackers are having much
more advanced
technology to barge into
any system or a company
Information System in
several unethical ways
that the organisation do
not have any idea of or it
is not included in the
company operational
policy. It will not even be

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included in the
information handling
operational policies that
the organisation has
developed according to
the traditional base and it
does not even have the
potential of accepting the
changed agile information
system development
methods. With this, it is
very natural that the
organisation would not
have a developed policy
for the new to data
breaching techniques and
information system
security breaches that
might occur within the
organisation. When an
organisation goes through
these issues, it is not only
deteriorated the quality of
service that should be
provided to the customers,
but the reputation of the
organisation in front of
the customers is also
deteriorating at the same
rate. The company can
also face a lot of
consequences from the
legalities of the country in
which the organisation is
established in going to the
unethical handling of
information systems. This
is why from this learning
activity, I have gathered
the knowledge that with
the implementation of
agile information system
and flexible ways of
managing the information
within the organisation
comma that should be
agility in the business
policies as well that would
handle and welcome the
changes in the ethical

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ways of handling the
information system.
[Insert
Date]
Information in a business
is considered as the most
important asset that the
business has. Previously
the information system
planning within an
organisation was
conducted by ad hoc
basis as it was considered
to be a support system for
performing the service
function that were mostly
back end in nature. For
this, the traditional
methods by which the
support system of the
information system
management could work
in could only efficiently
perform at the back end
options. The information
system where planning to
be accepting the changes
that the business
environment were facing
in the latest times
adhering to all the
perceived benefits and
issues about the
information systems.
Slowly the business
organisations started
gathering the idea of an
agile information system
as it would have the
business organisations
sense all the response that
the information system
would have in real-time
based on the
comprehensive and
continual review of the
changes that may occur
in near future. there are
several advantages to the
agile implementation of
information systems that
provides enhance value to
This is the learning
activity where I found that
agile information system
and its implementation
within an organisation
was not traditionally
accepted that much but
with the slow idea of
flexibility within a
business and ever
changing business
environment made the
business organisations
think about a flexible
business information
system as well. However I
believe that the first and
foremost step of enabling
the agile information
system within an
organisation is accepting
the ever changing nature
of the business
environment. This is
extremely required for
any business organisation
as the infiltration of the
idea that business can
change unexpectedly
synchronising with
environment is the first
and foremost requirement.
Accepting the changes is
what makes the business
organisation go through
all the changes or be
prepared for the upcoming
unexpected changes. This
enables the particular
business organisation to
be aware of the changing
nature of the business
environment and at the
same time make room
within the organisation to
accept all kinds of
changes. The agile
information system is also
Gou, J., Li, N., Lyu, T.,
Lyu, X., & Zhang, Z.
(2019). Barriers of
knowledge transfer and
mitigating strategies in
collaborative
management system
implementations. VINE
Journal of Information
and Knowledge
Management Systems,
49(1), 2-20.

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the customers, is able to
gather all the benefits
from the change by
taking advantages of the
situation, implement the
competitive advantage
for the business
organisation that it
enables the agile
information system
within them, enable the
operations that are
profitable in nature
related to the competitive
advantages provided to
the organisation, survive
all the viability of
unexpected threats,
exponentially grow the
competition of the
organisation within the
competitive market,
provide leadership and
also capture the new
market.
providing the benefits
reorganization only after
the business organisation
in which the information
system is implemented in
understand the need for
change right at this point
of time and also in the
unprecedented future. I
understand that the
acceptance of agile
system only comes when
the business organisation
and its operations are also
made agile.
[Insert
Date]
it may offer that the
business organisations do
not understand that they
are not just benefits of an
agile information system
but at the same time the
real time response to
internal and external
environmental changes
for the organisation
adhering to the agile
information system
policies can also be we
having several issues.
according to the changes
in the business
organisation and making
its business policy agile
at such a level that the
ethical considerations, the
legal considerations and
the social considerations
are also implemented
within the business policy
is also required so that
With this learning activity
I have understood that it
just like the business
organisations continuing
their own business policy
and procedures regarding
agile information system
implementation, there are
several issues that can get
past the organisation and
destroy the organisation
as a whole if they do not
understand the importance
of accepting the agility
within the business
information system
development and also
within the ethical and
legal business policies
developed for the
organisation making room
for further changes.
Kroener, I., Barnard-
Wills, D., &
Muraszkiewicz, J.
(2019). Agile ethics: an
iterative and flexible
approach to assessing
ethical, legal and social
issues in the agile
development of crisis
management information
systems. Ethics and
Information Technology,
1-12.

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the benefits of agile
information system can
be enhanced further and
issues that the
information system
already has do not fall
victim to any kind of risk.
If an agile
implementation system is
not what will come
within an organisation
then the technology that
the organisation is using
at the current moment
can become obsolete in
near future. There can
also be occurrences
where the business
process innovation
cannot further use the
latest IS technologies,
and due to this the
protection of the
information within the
organisation from the
vendor side can induce
several risks. It is also
possible that the
robustness of the changes
can infiltrate into an
information system can
be decreased for the due
to the changes in the
environment and the
business policies not
adhering to it. I have also
come across several
literatures where it has
provided the information
about the business
organisations that have
not followed the agile
information system and
not updated the ethical
and legal business
policies according to it
for which the
organisation has gone
through obsolete business
system and downgraded

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security system.
Therefore it is resulted to
several security breaches
losing the trust of the
customers at the end and
all the competitive
advantage that it used to
have previously.
Summary of the Learning Journal
Going through the summary of the learning journal I have understood that the
acceptance of agility in business systems is extremely required and this is just not constructed
into agile information systems. Information system is the basic asset of any organisation but a
business development policy and business operational policy is also revolving around the
information systems such that the business is handled well. with the understanding that I have
gone through with my learning activity I can clearly say that business organisation also needs
to think about bring about an acceptance of agility within the business policies to make room
for the agile information systems and also so be prepared for the near future going to several
other changes in the information system or other business operations.
Conclusion
Therefore in conclusion I can say that the learning activities that I have gone through
made we learn a lot about the business structure and the impact of an agile information
system on the business development policies. The ways by which the business environment is
changing is also impacting several aspects of a business, of which the information systems
and business policies are also a part of. I have understood that in order to make sure that the
business is accepting all the changes for the future and right at this point of time the sense of
agility needs to be understood extremely well by every person involved within a business and
also the decision making bodies that make sure what changes shall we made and what
changes cannot be made within a business policy.

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