L.L.Bean is a large retail organization whose development processes must be agile in order to allow rapid enhancement and maintenance of its technology infrastructure. Over the past decade L.L.Bean’s software code-base had become brittle and difficult to evolve. An effort was launched to identify and develop new approaches to software development that would enable ongoing agility to support the...

Agile Development Methods have received much attention since their inception, being regarded as an alternative to plan-based, phased methodologies, which are guided by a waterfall process model. These practices have evolved and developed over time, culminating in 2001 with the Agile Manifesto. Since that time, preferred methodologies, implementations, and best practices have continued to evolve...

Numbers of Information System development methods or agile software development methodologies are in practice. When any organization is going for IS development they will be looking for the IS development methods that are most complete and/or significant and also to fulfill their requirements and give them a complete solution. Agile software development methods have made their way into the soft...

In the corporate use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), deployment of enterprise systems (ESs) technology in particular, has been the most vital development towards improving an organization's effectiveness. ESs make up the value chain of an enterprise allowing the organization to become significantly flexible and efficient. This paper investigates the use of ESs to increase agi...

The Sidky Agile Measurement Index (SAMI) is a 5step value-based roadmap to agility. The SAMI is designed to help guide organizations seeking to become more agile. Each of SAMI’s 5 steps (Collaborative, Evolutionary, Integrated, Adaptive and Encompassing) aims to instill a new value in teams and organizations. This report shows how an organization that is just at Step 2 of the SAMI has realized ...

Changing market environment, global competition, rapidly fluctuating customer demands and more complex global network of supply chains require new production conceptions (Pull, Lean) and technologies. Novel supply chain paradigms (1. Lean-, 2. Agile-, 3. Leagile Supply Chain) are forms in order to increase and maintain competitiveness of companies. New organization and cooperation forms are for...

Task allocation is considered an important activity in software project management. However, the process of allocating tasks in agile software development teams has not received much attention in empirical research. Through a pilot study involving mixed open-ended and closed-ended interviews questions with 11 agile software practitioners working within a software development organization in Ind...

Today’s internet-based business operations require agile manufacturing systems that can quickly respond to a changing business climate. Effective business operation in such an environment depends on information flow throughout the company. This need necessitates integration of information technology throughout the organization, including the business and manufacturing operations. Existing indus...

The vision of building a successful software product requires teams of individuals equipped with a wide range of social and technical skills. Furthermore, by combining these skills with appropriate job roles, we should be able to improve the productivity of a software organization. In order to identify and compare different roles in software development activities, we conduct a systematic compa...

M odern business organizations are emergent—they reside in a state of continual process change. Globalization, deregulation, increased competition, mergers and acquisitions, and the like all reveal organizations in transition, adapting to a continuously changing business environment. In this dynamic context, however, organizations must still project quality of product, service, and process to g...