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Traditional ISD methods have been criticized for placing too much emphasis, at least implicitly, on stability of IS development activities (Truex and Baskerville, 1998). Advocates of so-called lightweight methods (Beck, 2000; Cockburn, 2000) have presented similar thoughts. Discussions on IS development in emergent organizations (Truex et al., 1999) provide recent profound critique of ISD methods (Truex et al., 2000). In fact, advocates of IS development in emergent organizations have set new goals for developing ISs (Truex et al., 1999).