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Beyond Budgeting: A Performance Management Model for Software Development Teams
(2010)
The Beyond Budgeting performance management model enables companies to keep pace with changing environments, to quickly create and adapt strategy and to empower people throughout the organisation to make effective choices. ...
A case study of risk management in agile systems development
(2009-06-08)
A principal objective of agile development methods is to reduce risk thereby resulting in more
successful and effective information systems. However, while there is an extensive body of academic
literature on risk ...
Future research in agile systems development: applying open innovation principles within the agile organisation
(Springer Verlag, 2010)
A particular strength of agile approaches is that they move away from
'introverted' development and intimately involve the customer in all areas of
development, supposedly leading to the development of a more innovative ...
What's technology got to do With IT? A Dephi study on collaborative learning in distance educatio
(London School of Economics, 2009)
Collaborative Learning (CL) is increasingly being used in Distance Education (DE), as it has been
identified as an effective solution to known weaknesses such as high average rates of dropout and low
quality of learning ...
Using Agile Practices to Influence Motivation within IT Project Teams
(2011)
This exploratory study of IT project teams in Sweden and Ireland investigates how three agile practices, namely daily stand-ups, iteration planning and iteration retrospectives, contribute to motivation or de-motivation ...
The Impact of Agile Practices on Trust in Software Project Teams
(IEEE, 2012)
Agile software development involves self-managing teams that are empowered and responsible for meeting project goals in whatever way they deem suitable. Managers must place more trust in such teams than they do in teams ...
Agility from first principles: reconstructing the concept of agility in information systems development
(Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2009-09)
Awareness and use of agile methods has grown rapidly among the information systems development (ISD) community in recent years. Like most previous methods, the development and promotion of these methods have been almost ...
Understanding Agility in Software Development through A Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective
(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)
(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", ...
Modelling the Effects of Decision Tools in Online Shopping
(2009)
The provision of tools to focus user interaction in analysing data to come to a decision is the core principle of a decision supporting system. This became the inherent characteristic of decision support systems to ...