Continuous planning: An important aspect of agile and lean development

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 132-162

  Suomalainen, Tanja ^a   Kuusela, Raija ^a   Tihinen, Maarit ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agile; Business planning; Continuous planning; Leagile; Lean; Roadmapping; Software development; Strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938382860     PISSN: 17419174     EISSN: 17419182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2015.070607     Document Type: Article

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