While every IT professional knows from experience that handling change is much harder and more expensive than building IT systems from scratch, only little scientific attention has been paid to prepare for change. This issue is of great importance since usually 80-90% of the total cost of ownership (TCO) of IT systems are maintenance costs. In our networked society changes may result from diffe...

Agile methodology is an approach used for the development of a project which helps to respond to the unpredictability of building software through incremental, iterative work cadences. These methodologies are used to deal with the situations where the waterfall model fails. The biggest drawback of waterfall model is that it assumes that every requirement of the project can be identified before ...

Studies show that many software developers are reluctant, for a variety of reasons, to employ system development methodologies (SDMs) in the course of building their applications. The proponents of Agile methodologies suggest that many of the factors that have inhibited the use of SDMs to date have largely been addressed in the underlying principles of Agile methods. Using adoption theory as a ...

The increasing growth of the Web field has promoted the development of a plethora of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches. These methodologies share a top-down approach: they start by modeling application content, then they define a navigational schema, and finally refine the latter to obtain presentation and rich behavior specifications. Such approach makes it difficult to acquire qu...

This paper proposes a collaborative approach to aspects of IT service management (ITSM) for agile information technology landscapes composed of technically knowledgeable users and fast changing requirements. The cost-intensive and timeconsuming tasks of building and maintaining a configuration management database (CMDB) are accomplished in a distributed, collaborative way in a semantic wiki in ...

The manufacturing industry is undergoing a major paradigm shift that is taking it from traditional manufacturing into a world of agile manufacturing. An agile corporation should be able to rationalize its manufacturing facilities and produce a large variety of products at lower cost in time. Designs of modular products and reconfigurable processes are crucial to agile manufacturing. Modular pro...

Agile Software Development Process (ASDP) has been adopted by many software industries. There exist various methods based on ASDP. Agile methods (AMs) are used mostly in small and low critical projects due to lack of generalized practices. Limited applicability of AMs in distributed environment, life critical system, contract projects and large complex application generated the strong need of g...

Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) are the subject of increasing interest for educators and trainers. In the context of software development, they are beginning to see increasing use both as learning spaces and as a richer means of collaboration for virtual teams. This chapter reflects on a project that developed and evaluated a virtual agile software development workshop hosted in the Ope...

One of the common problems encountered in software engineering is addressing and responding to the changing nature of requirements. While several approaches have been devised to address this issue, ranging from instilling resistance to changing requirements in order to mitigate impact to project schedules, to developing an agile mindset towards requirements, the approach discussed in this paper...

Agile software development processes emphasize team work in small groups as one of the features that contribute to high software quality and knowledge dispersion among developers. Research supports claims that agile methods also lead to higher motivation and job satisfaction among developers. Research in workplace psychology indicates that factors like autonomy, variety, significance, feedback,...