Agile development methods continue to enjoy widespread use, with more and more companies transitioning to agile methods. Current literature suggests that most of those companies are successful in making the transition, but others are not so successful. This paper examines one such company – referred to within as the ‘ABC Company’ to maintain their privacy – and analyzes and discusses their stru...

The Vortex of Continuous Development of Embedded Systems: An Inquiry into Agility Orchestration BY David Anthony Bishop May 6, 2014 Committee Chair: Richard Baskerville Major Academic Unit: Robinson College of Business Agile methodologies have become a popular and widely accepted method for managing software development. Since the inception of the Agile Manifesto over ten years ago, agile devel...

This paper considers the leadership approaches used in agile project management teams particular and organizations general. It importance for managers to choose right style each specific contingency. A significant consideration is amount of change expectation innovation. Managers may improve their ability by learning adjust styles. Agile are expanding not only because respond innovation, but qu...

Research interest in agile innovation management (AIM) has increased due to its growing popularity. However, little is known about adaptability by small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study examines the factors affecting intention adopt AIM SMEs. A conceptual framework developed combining internal external environmental that influence adoption intention. Responses were received from 276 SM...

Management literature on agile software development has largely focused on the relationship between agile methods and behavioral control, particularly the role that control plays in fostering flexibility. Although the focus on control has helpfully illuminated the constraints necessary in agile projects, it has provided only a half-finished portrait of the importance of structure in this approa...

Modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complex tasks. In order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital to obtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higher quality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. In order to achieve such objectives a paradigm has...

Nowadays, populations are concentrated in large cities exceeding millions of peoples; the need for massive infrastructure constructions and services becomes the priority for governments and local municipality institutions. However, the realization of such projects still problematic and conventional techniques quickly become inadequate. Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) recommendation...

In the emerging agile manufacturing paradigm, there is a great need for a flexible and re-configurable IT platform to form virtual enterprises. In this paper, according to the functional requirements of virtual agile manufacturing, a pragmatic Web-based platform entitled ‘‘E-DREAM’’ has been developed to support the virtual enterprising. Firstly, this paper discusses the E-DREAM basic architect...