Supporting self-organizing agile teams what's senior management got to do with it?

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 77 LNBIP, Issue , 2011, Pages 73-87

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

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agile Software Development; Grounded Theory; Organizational Culture; Self Organizing Teams; Senior Management

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GROUNDED THEORY; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SELF-ORGANIZING TEAMS; SENIOR MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79956308508     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20677-1_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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