Following a well-established track record of success in other domains such as
manufacturing, Kanban is increasingly used to achieve continuous development and …

Teamwork is crucial in software development, particularly in agile development teams which
are cross-functional and where team members work intensively together to develop a …

This article is intended to serve as an introduction to this special issue on agile practices. In
doing so, we briefly survey a number of key issues that are emerging in the application of …

Agile project management methods revolutionized the way how software projects are
executed and organized. The question, however, on how to enable agility outside of …

Effective leadership is one of the key drivers of business and project success, and one of the
most active areas of management research. But how does leadership work in agile software …

Abstract Context Continuous Deployment (CD) is an emerging software development
process with organisations such as Facebook, Microsoft, and IBM successfully implementing …

Although many companies pursue agile projects, extant literature reveals a lack of research
on project agility determinants. This study examines the project team characteristics' impact …

Agile practices become increasingly popular for projects and project portfolios offering firms
a higher flexibility to adapt to dynamic environments. This study investigates the antecedents …

The agile approach to projects focuses more on close-knit teams than traditional waterfall
projects, which means that aspects of group maturity become even more important. This …

Context Practitioners and researchers often claim that agile methods have moved into the
mainstream for the last few years. To support this claim they refer to recent industrial surveys …