Knowledge work is becoming the predominant type of work in many countries and is involved in the most important processes in organizations. Despite its increasing importance business information systems still lack appropriate support for knowledge-intensive processes, since existing workflow management solutions are too rigid and provide no means to deal with unpredictable situations. Future bu...

Global competition requires that new technical products are launched at the same time in all relevant global markets. Therefore the Human Computer Interface (HCI) product designers need to know all requirements of all global customer groups before starting the global development process of user interfaces (UI), which takes normally place in dispersed intercultural mixed UI designer teams. There...

Based on a real-world case study in agile development, we examine issues of schema evolution in state-of-the-art object databases. In particular, we show how traditional problems and solutions discussed in the research literature do not match the requirements of modern agile development practices. To highlight these discrepancies, we present the approach to agile schema evolution taken in the c...

Purpose In response to environmental uncertainty, organizations rely on independent, empowered teams increase their responsiveness change. The purpose of this paper is analyze how objectives and key results (OKRs) can contribute creating a shared vision which keeps the different, aligned. Design/methodology/approach Through qualitative study, develops conceptual model OKRs lead vision. authors ...

This paper summarizes how an algebra for mobile systems, the π-calculus, can be applied as unified formal foundation to service oriented architectures (SOA). The concepts accounted are orchestrations including data and processes, as well as choreographies consisting of interacting processes. Since SOAs incorporate agile binding of interaction partners, static process structures as found in Petr...

maintenance is one of the systems which can play an essential role in the success of manufacturing and services systems. one of the most maintenance innovative approaches is agile maintenance. based on this approach, organizations integrate maintenance concepts with agility features such as: flexibility, agile and fast move, etc and also are trying to provide one hundred percent preparing equip...

I n recent years, the use of, interest in, and controversies surrounding agile methods have all increased dramatically—as has anecdotal evidence for agile methods’ effectiveness in certain environments and for specific project types. Exactly in which environments and under what conditions agile methods work remains unclear, however. A development team at Motorola, for example, noted that, “a pl...

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...