Browsing Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change by Author "Wang, Xiaofeng"
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Agile Practices in Use from an Innovation Assimilation Perspective: a Multiple Case Study
Wang, Xiaofeng; Conboy, Kieran (2007)Agile methods have been adopted by many information systems development (ISD) teams and organizations in recent years. However, while agile method research is growing, many studies lack a strong theoretical and conceptual ... -
Chaos and Order in Agile Software Development: a Comparison of Two Software Development Teams in a Major IT Company
Wang, Xiaofeng (2007)Agile methods have emerged and become popular over last few years as a response to shortcomings of the waterfall process model. However, agile processes are stamped by some as chaotic processes and are placed in opposition ... -
A Coevolving Systems Approach to the Organization of Agile Software Development
Vidgen, Richard; Wang, Xiaofeng (2009)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 ... -
A coevolving systems approach to the organization of agile software development.
Wang, Xiaofeng; Vidgen, Richard (Institute of Management Sciences, 2009)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 ... -
From Business Process Management to Business Process Ecosystem
Wang, Xiaofeng (2006)New technologies, notably service oriented architectures and Web services, are enabling a third wave of business process management (BPM). Supporters claim that BPM is informed by complexity theory and ... -
An Investigation of Agility Issues in Scrum Teams Using Agility Indicators
Pikkarainen, Minna; Wang, Xiaofeng (2009)Agile software development methods have emerged and become increasingly popular in recent years, yet the issues encountered by software development teams that strive to achieve agility using agile methods are yet to be ... -
'Lots Done, More To Do': the Current State of Agile Systems Development Research
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Organizing for Agility: a Complex Adaptive Systems perspective on Agile Software Development Process
Vidgen, Richard; Wang, Xiaofeng (2006)Agile software development has caught the attention of both practitioners and academics in recent years. In spite of many anecdotes and papers describing lessons learnt the theoretical foundation of agile software development ... -
A Paradoxical Perspective on Contradictions in Agile Software Development
Wang, Xiaofeng; O'Conchuir, Eoin; Vidgen, Richard (2008)An ongoing debate on agile methods focuses on the contradictions in software development, especially responding to change vs. following a plan, and people vs. processes. Unlike the ¿either-or¿ perspective adopted in the ... -
Turning Time from Enemy into an Ally using the Pomodoro Technique
Wang, Xiaofeng (Springer, 2010)Time is one of the most important factors dominating agile software development processes in distributed settings. Effective time management helps agile teams to plan and monitor the work to be performed, ... -
Understanding Agility in Software Development through A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
Wang, Xiaofeng; Conboy, Kieran (2009)Agile software development methods have emerged in recent years and have become increasingly popular since the start of the century. While much research claims to study agile methods, the meaning of agility itself in ... -
Where agile research goes: starting from a 7-year retrospective (report on agile research workshop at XP2009)
Wang, Xiaofeng; Lane, Michael; Conboy, Kieran; Pikkarainen, Minna (2009)This report summarizes the key findings from a workshop at the 10th International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering (XP2009) called "Agile Research" A 7-Year Retrospective", ...