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Positioning Agility

Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 10th International Conference, PROFES 2009, Oulu, Finland, June 15-17, 2009. Proceedings

The 34 papers presented together with 2 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected and the topics covered are evidence-based software engineering and quality assurance, agile software development, process models and SPI, processes, software as a business.

Exploring the Sources of Waste in Kanban Software Development Projects

The application of agile software methods and more recently the integration of Lean practices contribute to the trend of continuous improvement in the software industry. One such area warranting proper empirical evidence is a project’s operational efficiency when using the Kanban method. This short paper takes a new an...

The set-up of a software engineering research infrastructure of the 2010s

The Software Factory of today is not intellectually following the earlier undertakings with the same name stemming back in 1980s in Japan or in the US, but represents the software development of the 2010s.

Building blocks for self-organizing software development teams a framework model and empirical pilot study

Lean Enterprise Software and Systems - First International Conference, LESS 2010, Helsinki, Finland, October 17-20, 2010. Proceedings

Anticipating Success of a Business-Critical Software Project: A Comparative Case Study of Waterfall and Agile Approaches

Preliminary insight into success factors related to project outcomes that can be found at the midpoint of the development projects are offered.

Operationalizing the Concept of Success in Software Engineering Projects

An indicative project success model for software engineering projects is proposed and evaluated empirically in a large multinational software corporation setting, showing the model provides a valuable tool for KIBS organizations to increase their capabilities in running successful projects as well as to find targets fo...

Analyzing tool usage to understand to what extent experts change their activities when mentoring

There is a notable difference in the way the tools are used between the experts working together and the experts mentoring the new developers that have just joined the team, and over time the difference between pairs of experts and mixed pairs working together becomes almost unnoticeable.

Software product roadmapping in a volatile business environment

A framework is developed for software product roadmapping and results revealed that organizations view the product roadmap mainly as a tool for strategic decision making as it aims at showing the future directions of the company's products.

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Agile methods rapidly replacing traditional methods at Nokia: A survey of opinions on agile transformation

The perception of the impact of agile methods is predominantly positive, and several challenge areas were discovered, but based on this study, agile methods are here to stay.