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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Agile Practices"”.
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A Structured Approach to Adopting Agile Practices: The Agile Adoption Framework
Many organizations aspire to adopt agile processes to take advantage of the numerous benefits that it offers to an organization. Those benefits include, but are not limited to, quicker return on investment, better software quality, and higher customer satisfaction. To date however, there is no …
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Distributed agile patterns : an approach to facilitate agile adoption in offshore software development
Over a decade, companies have been using agile methods for the development of software. However with the increasing trends of offshore software development, companies are becoming more interested in using agile methods for such projects. While offshore development has several dynamic benefits such …
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Management of cross-team interfaces in large-scale agile development
Agile product development promises improved productivity, fast development cycles, and high employee satisfaction. Large-scale agile development frameworks (e.g., SAFe, Sage, Scrum [at symbol] Scale, Spotify, LeSS) adapt agile principles for programs where multiple teams must work together to build …
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What factors influence the transition from safe 4.5 to safe 5.0 in a large-scale financial services organization
… must respond quickly to market changes and be agile in product and service delivery. This study investigates the factors influencing the transition from Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) 4.5 to SAFe 5.0 within a prominent large-scale financial services organization. The study, anchored in the …
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Agile project dynamics : a strategic project management approach to the study of large-scale software development using system dynamics
… have dealt with these pressures by adopting Agile Software Development, an approach designed to be flexible and responsive to high-change environments. Software development teams that are said to employ "Agile development" in effect practice a variety of "agile methods". These practices are …
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The agile manager-investigating informal roles in agile software development
In the theoretical framework of Agile Software Development (ASD) the concept of the selforganising team has subsumed the traditional role of the manager. Agile methodologies such as Scrum and eXtreme programming (XP) have their own set of roles, such as the product owner and scrum master. However, …
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The Influence of national culture dimensions on agile implementations in the South African software development context
Culture plays a role in how Agile frameworks are utilised and implemented. Agility requires the active involvement of team members and is said to be suitable in contexts where there is a horizontal hierarchy (low power distance) and where flexibility and spontaneity (low uncertainty avoidance) are …
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Disciplined agility for process control & automation
… of automation offerings, and on suitability of agile practices to process automation product development. Agile methods may require changes to manufacturer work processes, but would enable an automation vendor to unlock more of the manufacturer's production value.
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Unlocking the Potential: Exploring the Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Agile Software Engineering
… Intelligence (GenAI) is revolutionizing Agile software engineering, unlocking new levels of productivity, efficiency, and innovation. As organizations increasingly integrate GenAI-powered tools, understanding their impact on Agile workflows is critical. Industry reports fuel the …
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Agile Arbeitsorganisation in der Intralogistik – Die Bedeutung agiler Methoden, Praktiken und Tools für die Reaktionsfähigkeit in der Intralogistik aus der Perspektive von Blue-Collar-Beschäftigten in Schweizer Industrie- und Handelsunternehmen
… and competitive differentiation. Yet, how agile methods, practices and tools, largely developed for knowledge-intensive white-collar contexts, can be adapted to physically bound, takt-driven blue-collar settings remains unclear. This thesis examines whether and how agile approaches can …
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Managing discovered scope within hybrid agile stage-gate project delivery systems
… a hybrid approach where comingled Stage-Gate and Agile methods serve both hardware and software activities. However, the need for synchronized delivery schedules between the hardware and software components is not addressed well by Agile methods, which do not emphasize forward planning. In …
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Human factors and cultural influences in implementing agile philosophy and agility in global software development
… of these processes may be too bureaucratic. The Agile Alliance formed in 2001, sought to address this problem; accordingly, they developed a manifesto and twelve principles, to which all agile software methods adhere. The purpose of the manifesto and its principles is to uncover better ways of …
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Software quality and governance in agile software development
… 15 years has been the introduction of the word “agile”. As any area matures, there is a need to understand its components and relations, as well as the need of empirical evidence about how well agile methods work in real life settings. <br/><br/>In this thesis, we empirically investigate the …
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Agile methodology implementation in Lebanon
Agile methods are being adopted in the software development industry increasingly and even beyond this sector. Outsourcing software development from developing countries in the Global South is increasing in the industry. With Lebanon being the hub for outsourcing software for the MENA region, …