scholarly journals Transitioning from a First Generation to Second Generation Large-Scale Agile Development Method: Towards Understanding Implications for Coordination

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Finn Olav Bjørnson ◽  
Torgeir Dingsøyr
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Development Method ◽  
Development Methodology

Abstract This paper reports our initial findings from a longitudinal case study within a large development project in a public organization in Scandinavia. We focus on changes in coordination practices as the development project moved from a 1st to a 2nd generation large-scale agile development methodology. Building on four theories of coordination from different fields, we investigate how each theory illuminates our case and what insight they might provide. We find that two of the theories are well suited to characterizing each phase, providing answer to how coordination was done. While two other theories can provide answers to why these changes occurred.

Learning during developing and implementing new bank offerings

2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Stevens ◽  
Sergios Dimitriadis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Informal Development

PurposeKnowledge of the management issues for developing new bank offerings efficiently is limited. Furthermore, recent research suggests that organisational learning can contribute greatly to the success of innovation projects. The aims of this paper are to provide a detailed description of the development process of a new financial product and to identify learning actions that may contribute to its effectiveness.Design/methodology/approachReports findings from a qualitative, longitudinal case study of a well‐known French bank.FindingsThe results revealed an informal development process consisting of a sequence of issues to solve and decisions to make.Research limitations/implicationsThough observations fit with the theoretical model, the findings cannot be generalized due to the use of a qualitative methodology. Thus, selecting a development project that brings variance to the scope and degree of innovativeness could enrich the observed learning mechanisms. Second, as services are very heterogeneous, further research should be done on the development processes of different new services, for example standardised versus customised. Third, mechanisms of adoption or avoidance of learning procedures remain to be explored extensively. Understanding the reasons of choice and adoption of learning strategies according to the environment and nature of the project could lead to further managerial recommendations.Practical implicationsImplications for banks to encourage learning during innovation are discussed and several opportunities for further research are suggested.Originality/valueAn informal development process is revealed, consisting of a sequence of issues to solve and decisions to make. Multiple learning actions and strategies are identified that enhance process effectiveness and efficiency.

Agile Software Development Process Applied to the Serious Games Development for Children from 7 to 10 Years Old

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra P. Cano ◽  
Carina S. González ◽  
César A. Collazos ◽  
Jaime Muñoz Arteaga ◽  
Sergio Zapata
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
User Profile ◽  
Extreme Programming ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Medium Development ◽  
Development Methodology ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
The City

The development of video games is a complex, multidisciplinary process, which involves different areas as well as a greater number of roles than for traditional software. Serious games face process constraints that concern a number of interactive, educational and psychological factors designed to lead to the fulfillment of educational objectives within a specific context. Based on a case study in the city Cali, Colombia, an iterative and incremental process is proposed, focusing on small and medium development for educational serious games and basing itself on two lines of research: agile development methodology and user-centered design (UCD) for children from 7 to 10 years. The agile methodology eXtreme Programming (XP) offers a useful option for the development of serious games as it establishes a continuous communication with all project stakeholders - including the end user - throughout the project, while UCD allows the user profile to be known and identified so that the game will meet the needs and match the capabilities, expectations and motivations of the child.

Development of Enterprise Content Management Systems

2013 ◽  
pp. 296-307
Author(s):  
Jaffar Ahmad Alalwan
Keyword(s):  
System Development ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Development Method ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Development Methodology ◽  
Enterprise Content Management ◽  
Large Research ◽  
Content Management Systems

Enterprise systems development approaches can be classified into development-centric and procurement centric approaches. Based on the component-based system development methodology (CBSD), this chapter proposes a procurement-centric framework to develop enterprise content management (ECM) system. Adopting CBSD to develop ECM system avoids the drawbacks of the development-centric approaches, and remedies the ECM field lacks where there is no system development method that helps in selecting and implementing the ECM system. To validate the proposed framework, the author applies it to a case study from a large research institution with more than 30,000 students.

scholarly journals Managing the requirements flow from strategy to release in large-scale agile development: a case study at Ericsson

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 2892-2936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ville T. Heikkilä ◽  
Maria Paasivaara ◽  
Casper Lasssenius ◽  
Daniela Damian ◽  
Christian Engblom
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Agile Development

scholarly journals What is a good pattern of life model? Guidance for simulations

SIMULATION ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 95 (8) ◽  
pp. 693-706
Author(s):  
Barry G Silverman ◽  
Gnana Bharathy ◽  
Nathan Weyer
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Human Behaviors ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Model ◽  
Good Pattern ◽  
Definition Of

We have been modeling an ever-increasing scale of applications with agents that simulate the pattern of life (PoL) and real-world human behaviors in diverse regions of the world. The goal is to support sociocultural training and analysis. To measure progress, we propose the definition of a measure of goodness for such simulated agents, and review the issues and challenges associated with first-generation (1G) agents. Then we present a second generation (2G) agent hybrid approach that seeks to improve realism in terms of emergent daily activities, social awareness, and micro-decision making in simulations. We offer a PoL case study with a mix of 1G and 2G approaches that was able to replace the pucksters and avatar operators needed in large-scale immersion exercises. We conclude by observing that a 1G PoL simulation might still be best where large-scale, pre-scripted training scenarios will suffice, while the 2G approach will be important for analysis or if it is vital to learn about adaptive opponents or unexpected or emergent effects of actions. Lessons are shared about ways to blend 1G and 2G approaches to get the best of each.

An Evolutive Component-Based Method for Agile Development of Service Oriented Architectures

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza Chehili ◽  
Lionel Seinturier ◽  
Mahmoud Boufaida
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
Service Oriented Architectures ◽  
Development Method ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Agile Software Engineering ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Incremental Process

The adoption of the agile methods' principles has emerged as an effective way to develop service oriented architectures as it paves the way for a better reply to the changing needs of the environment and even the customer. However, these changes may also require the evolution of the development process itself. This paper presents an agile and service-oriented software development method that combines concepts from the Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) domain and the agile software engineering one. This method provides an iterative and incremental process to deliverer business processes, implemented as an assembly of components. This leads to a faster response to the change of needs by reconfiguring the assembly of components. The method is based on a framework that implements its phases as an assembly of components to allow a dynamic reconfiguration of it in case of a development process evolution. Finally, a case study is presented to illustrate the use of the presented method.

A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE NEHALEM QUAD-CORE PROCESSOR FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. 453-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEVIN J. BARKER ◽  
KEI DAVIS ◽  
ADOLFY HOISIE ◽  
DARREN J. KERBYSON ◽  
MIKE LANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scientific Computing ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Simultaneous Multithreading ◽  
Scientific Applications ◽  
Memory Controller ◽  
A Performance

In this work we present an initial performance evaluation of Intel's latest, second-generation quad-core processor, Nehalem, and provide a comparison to first-generation AMD and Intel quad-core processors Barcelona and Tigerton. Nehalem is the first Intel processor to implement a NUMA architecture incorporating QuickPath Interconnect for interconnecting processors within a node, and the first to incorporate an integrated memory controller. We evaluate the suitability of these processors in quad-socket compute nodes as building blocks for large-scale scientific computing clusters. Our analysis of intra-processor and intra-node scalability of microbenchmarks, and a range of large-scale scientific applications, indicates that quad-core processors can deliver an improvement in performance of up to 4x over a single core depending on the workload being processed. However, scalability can be less when considering a full node. We show that Nehalem outperforms Barcelona on memory-intensive codes by a factor of two for a Nehalem node with 8 cores and a Barcelona node containing 16 cores. Further optimizations are possible with Nehalem, including the use of Simultaneous Multithreading, which improves the performance of some applications by up to 50%.

scholarly journals Coordinating Knowledge Work in Multiteam Programs

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 64-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torgeir Dingsøyr ◽  
Nils Brede Moe ◽  
Eva Amdahl Seim
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Agile Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Over Time

Software development projects have undergone remarkable changes with the arrival of agile development approaches. Although intended for small, self-managing teams, these approaches are used today for large development programs. A major challenge of such programs is coordinating many teams. This case study describes the coordination of knowledge work in a large-scale agile development program with 12 teams. The findings highlight coordination modes based on feedback, the use of a number of mechanisms, and how coordination practices change over time. The findings can improve the outcomes of large knowledge-based development programs by tailoring coordination practices to needs over time.

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