Combining agile software projects and large-scale organizational agility

Software Process Improvement and Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 183-193

  Kettunen, Petri ^a   Laanti, Maarit ^b  

^a NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile organization; Agile software methodologies; New product development; Software engineering management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AGILE ORGANIZATION; AGILE SOFTWARE METHODOLOGIES; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 42449151331     PISSN: 10774866     EISSN: 10991670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spip.354     Document Type: Article

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