Aligning strategic planning with agile development: Extending agile thinking to business improvement

Proceedings of the Agile Development Conference, ADC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 78-82

  Rand, Colin ^a   Eckfeldt, Bruce ^a  

^a Cyrus Innovation   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGILE DEVELOPMENT; BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; HOLISTIC DESIGN PROSPECTS; LEAN THINKING;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THROUGHPUT;

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 15944386951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ADEVC.2004.5     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. See Chapter 18 of Agile Management for Software Engineering by David J. Anderson (Prentice Hall, 2004) for a discussion of the business benefits of agile methods.
2. One of the rules of Lean Thinking is to empower workers to make their own decisions
3. As described on systemdynamics.org, "System dynamics is a methodology for studying and managing complex feedback systems, such as one finds in business and other social systems."
4. Competitive Strategy, Michael Porter, Free Press 1980
5. Described in Lean Thinking, Womack and Jones, Free Press 1996,2003
6. Described in The Goal, Goldratt and Cox, North River Press 1992