The manufacturing system environment is typically a complex system, involving many variables and constraints, being in certain cases a chaotic system. The introduction of new paradigms to face globalisation, distribution of activities and customer satisfaction requirements, increases the problem complexity. The new manufacturing control approaches should support the agile adaptation to volatile...

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...

Agile methodologies have impact not only on coding, but also on requirements engineering activities. In the paper agile requirements engineering is examined from the research point of view. It is claimed that use cases are a better tool for requirements description than user stories as they allow zooming through abstraction levels, can be reused for user manual generation, and when used properl...

Changing market environment, global competition, rapidly fluctuating customer demands and more complex global network of supply chains require new production conceptions (Pull, Lean) and technologies. Novel supply chain paradigms (1. Lean-, 2. Agile-, 3. Leagile Supply Chain) are forms in order to increase and maintain competitiveness of companies. New organization and cooperation forms are for...

Recent developments indicate a fast-growing relevance of the agile project methodology in innovation. Besides benefits, projects also pose several challenges. Organizations need to come up with an answer cope inherent risks projects. The adaption management control mechanisms is key foster benefits agile. However, ongoing debate on systems for innovation and harm achieving agility creates nexus...

Agile methodologies have recently gained growing success in many economic and technical spheres. This is due to the fact that flexibility, in particular fast and efficient reactions to changed prerequisites, is becoming increasingly important in the information society. To support adaptive, semantic collaboration between domain experts and knowledge engineers, a new, agile knowledge engineering...

Dynamism and uncertainty are genuine threats for current high technology organisations. Capability to change is the crux of sustainability of current large organisations. Modern manufacturing philosophies, including agile and lean, are not enough to be competitive in global market therefore a new emerging paradigm i.e. reconfigurable manufacturing systems is fast emerging to complement the appl...

The fields of Complex Adaptive Systems and Network Science are both important in producing agile forces for 21 st century environments. Complex Adaptive Systems theory tells us that agility requires the ability to adapt at different timescales and levels. These levels range from the tactical level to the levels of doctrine change and platform acquisition. Network Science identifies the key attr...

The LSO Workshop series has focused on technical, organizational, and social solutions to problems of learning from past experiences and codifying the resulting best practices so they can be systematically used in subsequent software development efforts. The theme of the Fourth Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (LSO), held in Chicago, Illinois in August of 2002 was "Balancing Agile Pr...

Originally coming from business world, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm is expanding its range of application into several different environments. Industrial automation is increasingly interested on adopting it as a unifying approach with several advantages over traditional automation. In particular the paradigm is well indicated to support agile and reconfigurable supply chains due...