The majority of commercial requirements management tools tend to be costly, document-driven and used by large organizations undertaking traditional forms of software development. While they are not immediately in the spirit of the agile philosophy, which advocates live dialogue over documentation and encourages small teams of developers to do the simplest thing possible to satisfy a requirement...

Agile software development has gained widespread acceptance and adoption by a broad range of organisations. Research to-date focuses on the positive gains from Agile adoption while the possible software risks have been largely overlooked. A recent failure case of a large Agile project invites a balanced view of Agile development and consideration of risks management. As a first step towards Agi...

Risk management in software engineering has become a recognized project management practice but it seems that not all companies are systematically applying it. At the same time, agile methods have become popular, partly because proponents claim that agile methods implicitly reduce risks due to for example, more frequent and earlier feedback, shorter periods of development time and easier predic...

Supply chain management has become one of the most popular approaches to enhance the global competitiveness of business corporations today. Firms must have clear strategic thinking in order to effectively organize such complicated activities, resources, communications, and processes. An emerging body of literature offers a framework that identifies three kinds of supply chain strategies: lean s...

<p class="comp"><em>Inventory management is a systematic approach to sourcing, storing, and selling inventory both raw materials (components) finished goods (products). In business terms, means the right stock, at levels, in place, time, cost as well price. Inventory </em><em>refers process of ordering, storing using company's inventory. This includes materials, componen...

Traditional Project Management Methodologies (TPMM) aim to prevent change by extensively planning and documenting as much as possible before the system is developed while change is inevitable and that it is not to be avoided. Additionally, Traditional Project Management rely more on processes, sequential software development, like waterfall. Consequently, there is a demand for system developmen...

Agile software-development advocates claim that an important value proposition of agile methods is that they make people more motivated and satisfied with their jobs. While several studies present anecdotal evidence that agile methods increase motivation and satisfaction, research has not theoretically explained or empirically examined how agile development practices relate to team members’ fee...

Most of the world population works in the service sector, which stresses the importance of knowledgeintensive organizations and, consequently, strategic competence management. Knowledge management and the supporting enterprise systems (ESs) have received a lot of researcher attention, but the deployment success rate is not flattering. Therefore, in this 33-month long Action Design Research (ADR...