Balancing acts: Walking the Agile tightrope

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5-12

  Hoda, Rashina ^a   Noble, James ^a   Marshall, Stuart ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agile software development; self organizing teams; software engineering

Indexed keywords

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE TEAMS; BALANCING ACTS; CONTINUOUS LEARNING; CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTOR; GROUNDED THEORY; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; NEW ZEALAND; SELF ORGANIZING; SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS; SELF-TRANSCENDENCE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS;

ENGINEERING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 77955830311     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1833310.1833312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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