Key challenges for enabling agile BPM with social software

Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 297-326

  Bruno, Giorgio ^a   Dengler, Frank ^b   Jennings, Ben ^c   Khalaf, Rania ^d   Nurcan, Selmin ^e   Prilla, Michael ^f   Sarini, Marcello ^g   Schmidt, Rainer ^h   Silva, Rito ⁱ  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^f RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^h AALEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

agile BPM; Business Process Management; social software

Indexed keywords

AGILE BPM; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES; MUTUAL SERVICES; SEMANTIC INTEGRATION; SOCIAL SOFTWARE;

LIFE CYCLE; SEMANTICS;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79956113435     PISSN: 1532060X     EISSN: 15320618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smr.523     Document Type: Conference Paper

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