Agile practices in use from an innovation assimilation perspective: A multiple case study

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pikkarainen, Minna ^a   Wang, Xiaofeng ^a   Conboy, Kieran ^b  

^a University of Limerick   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Agile; Assimilation stages; Extreme programming; Infusion; Innovation adoption; Method; Practice in use; Routinization; Scrum; Systems development

Indexed keywords

AGILE; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; INNOVATION ADOPTION; METHOD; PRACTICE IN USE; ROUTINIZATION; SCRUM; SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT;

DRUG INFUSION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870969973     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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