Tougher competitive situations have led to increasing attention being paid to customer satisfaction, of which timely and customized services are the key concepts. As the product life cycle becomes shortened, high product quality becomes necessary for survival. Markets become highly diversi® ed and global, and continuous and unexpected change become the key factors for success. The need for a me...

Current Army C2 systems cannot integrate “come as you are” capabilities into operations making it difficult to combine participants into a cohesive force. This paper describes the Agile Planner concept developed by BAEAIT as robust approach for configurable C2 “on the fly”. With an Agile Planner, participants declare their capabilities when they register into the system. Once they do so, an Agi...

During the recent years, the manufacturing world has been witnessing the application of agile manufacturing paradigm. The literature review reported in this paper was carried out to study this progression. This literature review was carried out in two phases. In the first phase, the literature was reviewed to trace the origin of agile manufacturing paradigm and identify its enablers. Further, d...

Context: Communication, collaboration and coordination are key enablers of software development and even more so in agile methods. The physical environment of the workspace plays a significant role in effective communication, collaboration, and coordination among people while developing software.

Since the Agile Manifesto was presented in 2001, more and more organizations move from traditional, plan-driven software development to agile approaches. This movement is motivated by the fact that environments are changing quickly and new requirements need fast implementation. We conducted a structured literature review to identify the current state of knowledge about agile IT teams and how th...

The digitization of our society changes the way we live, work, learn, communicate, and collaborate. This disruptive change interacts with all information processes and systems that are important business enablers for the context of digitization since years. Our aim is to support flexibility and agile transformations for both business domains and related information technology and enterprise sys...

Worldwide business organizations realize that agility of sustainable supply-chain is a requisite need for survival in dynamic, competitive, and unpredictable market. The contribution this research to explore evaluate supply chains dairy manufacturing organization located Saudi Arabia. Other contributions are update the literature about different factors contributing achieve agile chain, propose...

The challenges facing business today require that organisations be able to continuously transform into flexible, agile enterprises which respond to market driven opportunities. Due to the complexity and speed of change, organisations cannot become agile high performers without the transformation to team based structures. Research has identified several key enablers of high performing teams with...

Modeling is an essential part in software development projects. This shifts the focus of software development from writing code to building models. Consequently Object Management Group (OMG) introduced Model Driven Architecture (MDA). MDA is the open approach to control both business and technology changes. MDA is created to help UML designers to cover all specification of the software system w...

Within agile software development there is a growing concern with how development organizations can integrate usability work into agile practices. The concern occurs as frustration experienced in practice by agile developers and usability designers, and it also occurs as a gap in the research literature. With this paper we report from a case study in a software company that is committed to agil...