In an intelligent automation ecosystem, namely in the context of Robotic Process Automation, there is a need to review development and operation processes practices, combine competences from these two areas with common good necessary for any organization or security team. It that quality, efficiency, profitability become possible. The elaboration guidelines best practices application DevSecOps ...

This paper explores the value of Agile Coaching for companies adopting agile methods.in order to assist those who are adopting agile methods to decide on using or not using an Agile Coach by examining the value they can bring to companies adopting agile methods. In our research we surveyed three distinct groups: companies that used an Agile Coach for agile adoption, companies that adopted agile...

Context: The analysis and selection of requirements are important parts of any release planning process. Previous studies on release planning have focused on plan-driven optimization models. Unfortunately, solving the release planning problem mechanistically is difficult in an agile development context. Objective: We describe how a release planning method was employed in two case projects in F-...

Agile software development methods have become accepted as a template for organizations to create new products. Though generally viewed an aid productivity, there are number of barriers experiencing their full benefit. One such barrier pertains the implementation agile across range organizational levels from use tools culture, norms, and policies creating context within which projects performed...

Leveraged by the advances in communication and information Technologies, producers and consumers are developing a new behavior. Together with the new emerging collaborative manifestations this behavior may directly impact the way products are developed. This powerful combination indicates that consumers will be involved in a very early stage in product development processes supporting even more...

The changing conditions in which business enterprises operate have created new challenges for contemporary companies. These include the need for value creation in cooperation with customers, readiness to adapt to changes, as well as being able to rapidly respond to customers' needs. A company which is characterised by such features is referred to as agile and is treated as a new paradigm for a ...

In the recent few years more and more software development organizations are striving to adopt agile software development methods and techniques. Successful agile adoption leads to producing higher quality software, enhance developers moral and at a lower cost than the traditional water wall model approach. However, Agile adoption always comes with special challenges and accordingly, fundamenta...

The chapter aims to present and explain the concept of the smart organization. This concept arose from the need for organizations to respond dynamically to the changing landscape of a digital economy. A smart organization is understood to be both internetworked and knowledge-driven, and therefore able to adapt to new organizational challenges rapidly. It is sufficiently agile to respond to oppo...

Although federal legislative policies greatly impact service delivery in local communities because they dictate which organizations will be allowed to participate in federally funded service provision, there has been little, if any, comparative, quantitative analysis of religious and secular organizations within the same geographic context (Vidal 2001). For example, the 1996 Charitable Choice l...

To combat slowed growth and industry pressures, pharmaceuticals companies must embrace demand-chain thinking and cloud-enabled solutions to become more agile, flexible and able to share data in real-time with partners, from contract manufacturers and CMOs, through 3PLs and retailers.