The supply chains (SCs) have to appeal to new management paradigms to improve their ability to respond rapidly and cost effectively to unpredictable changes in markets and increasing levels of environmental turbulence, both in terms of volume and variety. In this highly demanded context, the Agile paradigm provides the capabilities to SC quickly adapt to changes in the market requirements. The ...

Effective management of software projects will always be important regardless of the software development method (agile, iterative or waterfall) used. A recent movement in the software development industry towards adopting Agile practices have left many questioning the role of traditional project management. However, in practice companies often struggle with changing established practices. Many...

The field of software engineering is growing rapidly due to increased change of customers’ requirements and progress in technologies. Agile software development (ASD) have substituted the conventional Software development methodologies to enhance the software productivity through short increments and increased user satisfaction. The purpose of this research is to pinpoint the factors (success f...

This paper describes a “Bridge” method for successfully integrating Agile concepts with traditionally linear and sequential software development lifecycles. A software development and management environment is constructed to serve project oversight, management control, and team planning and task scheduling needs. The new method and environment enable project stakeholders to acquire a clear and ...

Around the same time as the emergence of agile methods as a formalized concept, the management accounting literature introduced the concept of Beyond Budgeting as a performance management model for changing business environments. Both concepts share many similarities with both having a distinctly agile or adaptive perspective. The Beyond Budgeting model promises to enable companies to keep pace...

Time-to-market and insufficient initial requirements are two major challenges that make requirement engineering for market-driven software projects different from bespoke software projects. These challenges can be resolved by using agile methods for market-driven software development as agile methods put emphasis on a dynamic approach for requirement engineering which work closely with an itera...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has become the most strategic tool for an organization to employ. A leading ERP solution is SAP®. It has been employed by organizations to enable them to collaborate on different projects and to integrate all aspects of operations. Just as organizations have adopted ERP solutions, they employed quality initiatives that are designed to help organizations ma...

The importance of the role that knowledge management (KM) plays in success knowledge-intensive organizations has long been acknowledged. However, requirements engineering (RE) methods for KM solutions still lack maturity, as do educational programs this domain. In paper, an agile-based method teaching RE solutions, specifically agile methodology (AKM-REM), is proposed. paper reports a experienc...

Agile methods are gaining in popularity and have already become mainstream in software development due to their ability to produce new functionalities faster, and with higher customer satisfaction. Agile methods require different measurement practices compared to traditional ones. Effort estimation, progress monitoring, improving performance and quality are becoming important as valuable advice...