This talk discusses how agile methods can be used for managing high-risk, time-sensitive R&D-oriented new product development (NPD) projects with demanding customers and fast-changing market conditions. It establishes the context, provides a definition, and describes the value-system for lean and agile project management. It provides a brief survey of popular lean and agile project management a...

Agile methodologies are gaining popularity in industry although they compromise a mix of accepted and controversial software engineering practices. Both global software development and agile approaches have gained significant popularity. Companies even show interest in applying agile approaches in distributed development to combine the advantages of both approaches. This is done despite their d...

Software developers can use agile software development methods to build secure information systems. Current agile methods have few explicit security features. While several discrete security methods can supplement agile methods, few of these integrate seamlessly into other software development methods. Because of the severe constraints imposed by agile methods, these discrete security technique...

Trust is an important aspect of any software development team, but particularly with self-managing teams as team members are very dependent on one another. Agile teams are considered to be self-managing and they employ many different agile practices to function as an agile team. While there have been many studies of trust in software development teams few have examined trust in an agile context...

~en: are a nwn~r of agile and traditional methodologies for software development. Agilists provide agile principles and agile values to characterize the agile methods but there is no clear and inclusive defmition of agile methods; subsequently it is not feasible to draw a clear distinction between traditional and agile sofu:vare development methods in.~ractice. ~e purpose of this paper is to ex...

A software development unit called to renew or replace an existing corporate system may face some special problems in an established company with a lot of well-trained behavioral patterns and thought structures fitting to the legacy system only. The challenge is not just to be on a journey and reach the destination with the development team but keeping accompanied by the stakeholders during the...

As organizations face accelerated economic dynamics, it is increasingly important to improve the capability of reacting agile to changes in the marketplace. This requires implementing and adapting internal structures in a timely manner and ensuring business-IT coordination throughout the process. Enterprise architecture management (EAM) is frequently proposed as a mean to arrive at organization...

Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) are drivers in today's business world. To perform amid this accelerated change the digitalization progress, organizations implementing agility. However, such an implementation does not happen without stumbling blocks some fail. One reason for is actors’ agile mindset (AM), which necessary to deal succefully within a VUCA environment. Kno...

This work focuses on the analogies and the differences between Lean Management and Extreme Programming. Lean Management (LM) is a management strategy that continuously tries to improve business processes focusing only on activities that provide value to the customer. The word lean means that only activities that increase the provided value for the customer are performed. Any additional activiti...