Context: How to adopt, scale and tailor agile methods depends on several factors such as the size of the organization, business goals, operative model, and needs. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe ©) was developed to support organizations to scale agile practices across the enterprise. Problem: Early adopters of SAFe © tend to be large multi-national enterprises who report that the adoption of S...

Agile software development is finding a new dimension in software development process models. As tools and techniques used to develop software has been changed drastically. Software development processes need to keep pace with changing technologies and new demands from clients. Today’s changing business needs have given rise to adaption of structures, strategies, and policies to suit the new en...

Agile processes enable software development projects to react to rapid changes in the development environment. However, they are often criticized for not creating and maintaining standard documentation such as requirements and design documentation. The lack of documentation can be detrimental for maintaining knowledge, especially in the long run, because there is no explicit medium for communic...

Efficiency of projects is a central concern in project management. Such concerns have only been exacerbated with projects being increasingly distributed across firm and country boundaries. This study has a two-fold research agenda: First, it provides an understanding of how the efficiency of projects varies across project organization types, namely, Insourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Offs...

This paper presents an approach to evaluate the supply chain agility behaviour consisting in the development of an integrated index, with the data gathering, transmission and processing supported by a cloud-computing environment. The proposed approach relies on the development of two agility indices: one to assess the individual company agile behaviour, and the other one to determine the same b...

As Grid computing is becoming an inevitable future, managing, scheduling and monitoring dynamic, heterogeneous resources will present new challenges. Solutions will have to be agile and adaptive, support self-organization and autonomous management, while maintaining optimal resource utilisation. Presented in this paper are basic principles and architectural concepts for efficient resource alloc...

Effective collaboration and communication are important contributing factors to achieve success in agile software development projects. The significance of workplace environment and tools are immense in effective communication, collaboration and coordination between people performing software development. In this paper, we have illustrated how workplace environment, collaboration, improved comm...

Distributed development is sometimes inevitable and must be dealt with when agile methods become more commonly used. The increased complexities in communication, collaboration, and coordination associated with distributed development coupled with the lack of support for organizational learning in agile practices present challenges to tool developers for agile teams. This paper describes a suite...

Abstract This study provides empirical evidence to the body of knowledge in Agile methods adoption small, medium and large organizations international context. research explores factors involved software development organizations. A survey was conducted among professionals gather data from 52 seven countries across world. Statistical techniques are applied towards assessment. Organizational cul...

The dominant presentation paradigm within academic, business and government organizations involves a linear and uninterrupted progression of bulleted slides introduced by a lone figure in front of a passive audience. This format does little to encourage active discussion or facilitate improvisational presentation of material. In this poster, we propose a presentation framework that encourages d...