Systematic piloting of agile methods in the large: Two cases in embedded systems development

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6156 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 47-61

  Heidenberg, Jeanette ^a,b   Matinlassi, Mari ^a   Pikkarainen, Minna ^c   Hirkman, Piia ^b   Partanen, Jari ^a  

^a Elektrobit Corporation   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

agile deployment; pilot; Software process improvement

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955465003     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13792-1_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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