Maureen Tanner

A/Prof Maureen Tanner has been teaching systems analysis and design to postgraduate and undergraduate students at the Department of Information Systems of the University of Cape Town (UCT) since 2009. Maureen also convenes and teaches the Information Systems Honours Programme at UCT. She is a C1 NRF rated researcher and her research interests lie in software development related issues. Maureen is a senior editor for the Electronic Journal of Information Systems (EJISDC) and the Editor for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge and Management (IJIKM). Maureen’s PHD worked focused on the Social Challenges experienced by Scrum Software Development teams during Agile Global Software Development. She used Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice to understand the social conditions giving rise to key challenges experienced by team members during Scrum projects. Maureen is the President of the AIS Southern African Chapter and the President Elect of the Information and Communication Technologies in Organisations and Society (ICTO).

Research interests

• Agile Software Development
• Global Agile Software Development
• General Issues around Software Development
• Global Software Development (GSD)

QUALIFICATIONS

• PHD in Information Systems - 2013
  From the UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN
• Masters of Commerce in Information Systems - 2006
  From the UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (with DISTINCTION)
• Master of Philosophy in Space Studies (IN PROGRESS)
  University of Cape Town
• B.Eng (Hons) Computer Science and Engineering - 2003
  From the UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS