Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate the adoption agile methodologies in context product management and assess their impact on development processes, organizational culture, overall business performance. study aims provide valuable insights into challenges, benefits, best practices associated with implementing management, ultimately contributing enhancement strategies contemp...

In this paper we describe the adoption of agile methods in two organizations. A participant observation method was used to gather in-depth data on the introduction and initial use of agile methods at a bank and a global law firm. An agile usage model, built on theories of innovation diffusion, information systems development, and agile methods, is used to explain post-adoption use of the agile ...

Software development is a complex, knowledgeintensive, and innovative process that frequently takes place in an extremely competitive and highly uncertain environment. For a long time, software developers have used traditional-structured approaches that are more disciplined and focus on coordinated actions to ensure the software goals are met. Recently, this traditional way of software developm...

Agile software development is finding a new dimension in software development process models. As tools and techniques used to develop software has been changed drastically. Software development processes need to keep pace with changing technologies and new demands from clients. Today’s changing business needs have given rise to adaption of structures, strategies, and policies to suit the new en...

The Internet economy has altered the current rules of software engineering. Traditional development methodologies have proven too cumbersome to meet the rapidly changing requirements and short product cycles demanded by business today. To meet these rapidly changing requirements, software developers have developed agile software development methodologies (SDMs) utilizing iterative development, ...

While there are many purported benefits of agile software development, use of these methods often has a significant impact on project coordination and information management, particularly where large, distributed teams are concerned. Effective coordination requires easily accessible, preferably structured information that is typically unavailable. In this paper we present a comprehensive argume...

Agile Methods are creating a buzz in the software development community, drawing their fair share of advocates and opponents. While some people consider agile methods the best thing that has happened to software development in recent years, other people view them as a backlash to software engineering and compare them to hacking. The aim of this chapter is to introduce the reader to agile method...

Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. In addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. The main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. In addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. The main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...