Agile methods are gaining popularity over a wider range of domains, predominantly in enterprise environments. Software methodologies are evolving due to the challenges imposed by ever changing software development scenarios. Agile methodologies particularly demand for an organizational culture which focuses on high responsibility and greater discipline of every individual in an organization. Th...

This research looks at the customer focus of agile software development teams. The study is part of a larger study examining how the twelve principles of Beyond Budgeting1 The importance of the customer to agile software development teams operating within large organisations (Augustine, 2005, Highsmith, 2004) and to the organisation as a whole (Gulati, 2007, Gulati and Oldroyd, 2005) is well do...

Nowadays, business supply chains for the production of complex products or services are likely to involve a number of autonomous organizations. The competitive market requires that these supply chains are highly agile, effective and efficient. Agility and effectiveness are obtained by forming highly dynamic virtual enterprises within supplier networks. We call these instant virtual enterprises ...

Agile development methods have been described by proponents as being the best way to deal with the dynamic nature of software development in organizations, yet looking at agile practices of the major agile methodologies reveals many practices that have been used in the past. This work examined agile practices from the perspective of software development professionals and identified four charact...

Introduction This paper examines the way in which one can best design digital technology for the developing world. We start out by examining technology-driven design, such as is used in developed ‘western’ economies, where new technologies are created at an ever increasing pace. From there we look at sustainable design, wherein we work with the existing infrastructure and create solutions for t...

DevOps is fast assuming greater importance in deciding the agility of an enterprise. A robust DevOps setup is crucial for successful agile delivery and minimal risks. It greatly optimizes release management costs and team productivity, resulting in reduced time to market. At the same time, DevOps enables organizations to make rapid product releases with increased quality and manage customers’ e...

In the recent competitive business era of globalization it is truly tough to acquire the organizational effectiveness and efficiency without proper manpower planning and development practices. Manpower plays the dual role in operations, first, itself is an operative force and second, it makes the other forces operative and has a significant role in achieving the organizational effectiveness and...

Evaluation of suppliers basing on the manufacturing strategy is the prime function of the purchasing department of the organization in today’s highly competitive business environment. Cost is the market winner in lean manufacturing strategy, thus the organizations focus on eliminating waste and achieve low cost. Service level can be considered as market winner in agile manufacturing strategy an...

Despite pervasiveness of the market forces and supplementary role of the state and in some cases, even civil society organisations, there are unmet social needs which remain unaddressed by the existing institutions. With industrial growth becoming jobless, the need for new models of social innovation is being felt all around the world to provide jobs to the youth, skills for the new economy and...

Project Summary Intellectual merit. This project aims to discover previously hidden patterns of work organization (workflows) by taking a novel approach to the creation of work process visualizations of knowledgeintensive (KI) work. In order to answer compelling questions about the ways mature KI organizations can be both successful over time and innovative – that is, both stable and agile in t...