Towards comprehensive and disciplined change management strategy in agile transformation process

Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2345-2351

  Gandomani, Taghi Javdani ^a   Zulzalil, Hazura ^a   Ghani, Abdul Azim Abd ^a   Sultan, Md Abu Bakar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Agile adoption; Agile software development; Agile transformation; Change management strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880649131     PISSN: 20407459     EISSN: 20407467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19026/rjaset.6.3706     Document Type: Article

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