Important considerations for agile software development methods governance

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Gandomani, Taghi Javdani ^a   Zulzalil, Hazura ^b   Abdul Ghani, Abdul Azim ^b   Sultan, Abu Bakar M ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Agile Adoption; Agile Governance; Agile methods; Agile software development; Agile transformation; Agile transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884867012     PISSN: 19928645     EISSN: 18173195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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