An Exploratory Study on Managing Agile Transition and Adoption

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volumn 265 AISC, Issue , 2014, Pages 177-188

  Gandomani, Taghi Javdani ^a   Zulzalil, Hazura ^a   Ghani, Abdul Azim Abdul ^a   Md Sultan, Abu Bakar ^a   Sharif, Khaironi Yatim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Agile adoption; Agile software development; Agile transformation; Agile transition; Grounded Theory; Managerial concerns

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS;

AGILE ADOPTIONS; AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; AGILE TRANSFORMATIONS; AGILE TRANSITION; GROUNDED THEORY; MANAGERIAL CONCERNS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84906879938     PISSN: 21945357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06538-0_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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