Iterative development is a common characteristic of agile methods. It is important to understand how the adoption of an iterative process provides business value, and how this value can be used to buy management support to implement other agile techniques. This paper exposes to the community an experience report of a large government agency’s migration from a Waterfall process to an iterative m...

For many years large enterprise technology vendors have been seeking to integrate a variety of financial, operational, and performance measurement applications under the broader theme of enterprise (or corporate) performance management (EPM). The combined acquisitions of "best of breed" applications with business intelligence (BI) technology and reporting frameworks all seamlessly integrate bac...

Many established techniques and modeling methods for business process management (BPM) are known. Since many of them are domain-independent, they can also be applied for requirements engineering within software development processes. In order to build a bridge between requirements engineering and the BPM body of knowledge, this paper first identifies 26 basic process characteristics (e.g., dura...

Agile development gets more appreciation from the market due to its flexible nature and high productivity. Scrum provides better management of the processes as compared to other agile modes. Scrum model has several features and strengths but still it lacks in engineering practices and quality. This research deals with the improvement of Scrum processes for better management and quality of softw...

The rate of change in business and government is accelerating. A number of techniques for addressing that change have emerged independently to provide for automated solutions in this environment. This paper will examine three of the most popular of these technologies— business process management, the agile software development movement, and infrastructure virtualization— to expose the commonali...

Contemporary information systems have to satisfy needs of agile and viable enterprises. They shall include mechanisms of business intelligence, business process management, information technology infrastructure management, and alignment between business and computer systems. The mechanisms for business process handling and computer systems handling are similar, and the mechanisms for their cont...

Agile methodologies are gaining popularity quickly, receiving increasing support from the software development community. Current requirements engineering practices have addressed traceability approaches for well defined phase-driven development models. Echo is a tool-based approach that provides for the implicit recording and management of relationships between conversations about requirements...