Organizing for agility: A complex adaptive systems perspective on agile software development process

Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Vidgen, Richard ^a   Wang, Xiaofeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Complex adaptive systems; Software development process

Indexed keywords

AGILE PRACTICES; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84870635405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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