to scale agile: Tailoring agile strategies to address the scaling challenges – such as geographic distribution, regulatory compliance, and large team size – faced by development teams and adopting agility across your organization. Both visions are important, but if you can’t successfully perform the former then there is little hope that you’ll be successful at the latter. This paper focuses on ...

Trust increases team performance in software development teams. Trust among team members is imperative for the success of an Agile project. Trust is, however, affected in distributed teams. We conducted a Grounded Theory study involving 45 Agile practitioners from 28 different software companies in the USA, Western Europe, Australia and India to investigate the techniques for building trust in ...

The agile approach to projects focuses more on close-knit teams than traditional waterfall projects, which means that aspects of group maturity become even more important. This psychological aspect is not much researched in connection to the building of an “agile team.” The purpose of this study is to investigate how building agile teams is connected to a group development model taken from soci...

Trust is an important aspect of any software development team, but particularly with self-managing teams as team members are very dependent on one another. Agile teams are considered to be self-managing and they employ many different agile practices to function as an agile team. While there have been many studies of trust in software development teams few have examined trust in an agile context...

China’s publishing enterprise Agile Supply Chain has its own peculiarities. The authors elaborate the significance of building the Chinese publishing enterprise Agile Supply Chain based on dynamic alliance in the current highly competitive market, and then construct and analyze three models and their characteristics. At last the authors discuss some problems deriving from the information Game, ...

Agile Development Methodologies have been designed to address the problem of delivering high-quality software on time under constantly and rapidly changing requirements in business and IT environments. Agile development processes are characterized by extensive coding practice, intensive communication between stakeholders, fast iterative cycles, small and flexible teams, and minimal efforts in s...

Agile software development stresses individuals and interaction, customer collaboration, short development cycles and frequent deliveries of valuable software. From the testing and quality assurance viewpoint these principles are challenging, and agile methods seem to lack aspects that traditionally are considered important and fundamental to successful quality assurance. In this paper we ident...

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.

Nowadays, application of Service Oriented Architecture is increasing rapidly; especially since introduction of distributed electronic services on the web. SOA software has a modular manner and works as a collaboration of independent software components. As a result, e-service approach is sufficient for software with independent components, each of which may be developed by a different company. ...