Self-organizing Agile teams need a supportive environment to emerge and flourish. Through a Grounded Theory study of 58 Agile practitioners across 23 different software organizations in New Zealand and India, we found that senior management support is a critical environmental factor influencing selforganizing Agile teams. We describe the influence of senior management, and show how their suppor...

Agile methodologies have emerged to challenge traditional ones and overcome their limitations. Increasingly, software development organizations are scaling agile practices in order meet the requirements of quickly changing regularly developing business environment. The main objectives this study investigate differences between project management methodologies, as well identify some key advantag...

Worldwide business organizations realize that agility of sustainable supply-chain is a requisite need for survival in dynamic, competitive, and unpredictable market. The contribution this research to explore evaluate supply chains dairy manufacturing organization located Saudi Arabia. Other contributions are update the literature about different factors contributing achieve agile chain, propose...

Nowadays, security is of great concern for any organization developing software systems for various requirements. Moreover, the same becomes more complicated during integration of security measures with agile software development methodology due to its lightweight informal nature. The requirements engineering is considered as one of the key element associated with any software development proce...

people and project management issues rather than technical issues.4 Agile methods (see the related sidebar on page 22) are a recent set of development techniques that apply a human-centered approach to software production.5 The agile approach aims to deliver high-quality products faster, producing satisfied customers. We conducted an empirical study to investigate whether agile methods change a...

‘‘Change’’ seems to be one of enterprises’ major characteristics in this new competitive era. Agile enterprise whereby an organization can change and adapt quickly to changing circumstances is increasingly viewed as a winning strategy. However, in embracing agile enterprise, there are important questions to be asked: what precisely is agility and how can it be measured? How can one assist in ac...

A significant proportion of organizations delivering IT services follows and combines some IT management frameworks. At the organizational level, they often act in accordance with ITIL, the most used IT Service Management (ITSM) framework. At the project management level, a growing part of them are willing to work with agile methods. However, ITIL favours the Waterfall life cycle, such as in PR...

Agile software development methods mainly aim at increasing software quality by fostering customer collaboration and performing exhaustive testing. The introduction of Extreme Programming (XP) – the most common agile software development method – into an organization is accompanied with conceptual and organizational changes. These changes range from daily-life changes (e.g., sitting together an...