Factors affecting effectiveness of agile usage - Insights from the BBC worldwide case study

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 77 LNBIP, Issue , 2011, Pages 132-145

  Senapathi, Mali ^a   Middleton, Peter ^b   Evans, Gareth ^c  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c Assurity Consulting Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agile usage; effectiveness of agile usage; Kanban

Indexed keywords

RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; AGILE METHODOLOGIES; AGILE METHODS; AGILE USAGE; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS; EFFECTIVENESS OF AGILE USAGE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION; KANBAN; RESEARCH MODELS; RESEARCH STUDIES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PRACTICES; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79956297094     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20677-1_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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