The authors have spent the past year building a test team in the highspeed, high-change environment of an Internet development company. As we'd hoped, the Agile values helped us tackle the difficulties of testing in such an environment. We also discovered that the Agile values helped us with the politics of working with other teams and obtaining support in the organization.

For large-scale software-development endeavors, agility is enabled by architecture, and vice versa. The iterative, risk-driven life cycle inherent in agile approaches allows developers to focus early on key architectural decisions, spread these decisions over time, and validate architectural solutions early. Conversely, an early focus on architecture allows a large agile project to define an im...

How can XP or other agile methods be used in large corporate IT shops? One large company found out, making XP the official corporate software development methodology for all projects over an 18 month period and counting. This paper explores many facets of that experience, beginning with a summary of the eight key determinants of organizational change model. It then follows the organization in i...

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The aim of this article is to discuss the merits of organizational learning agility as it relates to organizational leadership, organizational culture, and the mindset and behavior of the organization. An extensive definition of agility and its importance is presented as a precursor to individual learner agility, leadership agility, and organizational agility. This paper outlines the characteri...

Agile development methods are widely used among business enterprises. Since the introduction of Manifesto in 2001, several agile have been implemented, first single-team set-ups and later larger multi-team for complex Information Technology (IT) system development. However, adoption has slow public sector. This is also reflected academic literature, as there only a few studies discussing organi...

(geographic) location and, consequently, contribute to the product and process quality. In that sense, it is supposed that application of virtual enterprise (VE) organizational principles contributes to the agility of the work teams, that is, to the concurrent engineering (CE) work teams, or team work, organization. With the objective to test the potential of virtual enterprise (VE) organizatio...

There have been many studies and examples in the literature separately demonstrating the benefits of Agile software development and Software Configuration Management process to software development organizations. There is, however, a general misconception that these two practice domains cannot coexist in a single environment without compromising the values of each other, and there is little rep...