Beyond budgeting and agile software development: A conceptual framework for the performance management of agile software development teams

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lohan, Garry ^a   Conboy, Kieran ^a   Lang, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agile software development; Beyond budgeting; Team performance management

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING; ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; TEAM PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 84870957290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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