Strengths and barriers behind the successful agile deployment-insights from the three software intensive companies in Finland

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 675-702

  Pikkarainen, Minna ^a   Salo, Outi ^b   Kuusela, Raija ^a   Abrahamsson, Pekka ^c  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agile deployment; Improving agile development; Software process improvement (SPI); Success factors for agile deployment

Indexed keywords

AGILE DEPLOYMENT; AGILE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; FINLAND; PROCESS MODEL; PRODUCT MANAGER; PROJECT MANAGERS; QUALITY MANAGERS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SOFTWARE COMPANY; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS; SUCCESS FACTORS;

INDUSTRY; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; QUALITY CONTROL;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84868350802     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-011-9185-5     Document Type: Article

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