AGILITY BY VIRTUE OF ARCHITECTURE MATURITY

Gouri Prakash

2010

Abstract

This position paper is to demonstrate how architecture maturity combined with the degree of agility observed in software projects, results in four different types of projects, namely Experimental, Conservative, Ceremonious and Optimizing and what the characteristics of each of these project types are. The paper puts forth the position that project managers, should endeavour to elicit characteristics of software projects and match them with the characteristics of the four project types, discussed in this paper, before embarking on the project. By pursuing this approach, managers would be able to ascertain the benefits realized in pursuing a particular project type for a given project and the difference between how things are and how things should be and what factors can get them to a should-be position.

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in Harvard Style

Prakash G. (2010). AGILITY BY VIRTUE OF ARCHITECTURE MATURITY . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-04-1, pages 343-346. DOI: 10.5220/0002863703430346


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={Gouri Prakash},
title={AGILITY BY VIRTUE OF ARCHITECTURE MATURITY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={343-346},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002863703430346},
isbn={978-989-8425-04-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - AGILITY BY VIRTUE OF ARCHITECTURE MATURITY
SN - 978-989-8425-04-1
AU - Prakash G.
PY - 2010
SP - 343
EP - 346
DO - 10.5220/0002863703430346