Agile methods rapidly replacing traditional methods at Nokia: A survey of opinions on agile transformation

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 276-290

  Laanti, Maarit ^a   Salo, Outi ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^b  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agile deployment; Agile software development; Software engineering; Software processes

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEPLOYMENT; AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; DETECTION OF DEFECTS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE PROCESS;

METADATA; SURVEYS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79251639839     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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