Nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets an Agile Supply Chain (ASC) network is frequently considered as a dominant competitive advantage for survival. To achieve the competitive advantage, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. There are many definitions and models about agile supply chain and most of...

nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets an agile supply chain (asc) network is frequently considered as a dominant competitive advantage for survival. to achieve the competitive advantage, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. there are many definitions and models about agile supply chain and most of...

Despite the popularity of agile methods in software development and increasing adoption by organizations there is debate about what agility is and how it is achieved. The debate suffers from a lack of understanding of agile concepts and how agile software development is practised. This paper develops a framework for the organization of agile software development that identifies enablers and inh...

During 21st century, manufacturing success and survival are becoming more difficult to ensure this fact is originated in the emergency of new business era that has "change" as one of its major characteristics. Change in business environment and uncertainly have entered management study and research for the last two decades. Agility enhances the organization ability to provide high quality produ...

As software houses increasingly align themselves to Agile Software Development paradigm, the issue of what constitutes agility is coming to the forefront. Is it enough to follow the rituals and practices of some agile method to deliver the promises of the paradigm? Or, certain enablers need to be in place to prepare the context for the methods to deliver? What are these attributes of agility an...

This position paper discusses the evaluation of personal learning environment (PLE) enablers along four main axes including the delivery of personalized and contextualized recommendation services and the flexible representation of interaction and learning contexts.

How to make teams perform well is increasingly important in software development, as agile development methods prescribe development in small teams. Team performance has been studied in a number of research fields, and there are many models of what enables team performance. A central question then is how relevant these models are for agile development teams. This article investigates the follow...

BACKGROUND Agile concepts are not only beneficial for manufacturing sector but also for service sector such as healthcare. However, assessment of agility has been predominantly done in manufacturing enterprises. This study demonstrates a means to measure agility of a healthcare organization by assessing agility of a university dispensary. Its contribution to the knowledge base is twofold. First...

Agile Information Systems Development (ISD) principles emphasize self-organizing teams and empowered individuals in order to build more effective architecture and design. Agile ISD puts a higher emphasis of social interactions and human aspects of software development, and self-organizing teams act as enablers of these human aspects. In agile ISD teams, members have high autonomy over choosing ...