GROUNDING AND MAKING SENSE OF AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Mark Woodman, Aboubakr A. Moteleb

2009

Abstract

The paper explores areas of strategic frameworks for sense-making, knowledge management and Grounded Theory methodologies to offer a rationalization of some aspects of agile software development. In a variety of projects where knowledge management form part of the solution we have begun to see activities and principles that closely correspond to many aspects of the wide family of agile development methods. We offer reflection on why as a community we are attracted to agile methods and consider why they work.

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Woodman M. and A. Moteleb A. (2009). GROUNDING AND MAKING SENSE OF AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-84-5, pages 234-240. DOI: 10.5220/0002015502340240


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Mark Woodman and Aboubakr A. Moteleb},
title={GROUNDING AND MAKING SENSE OF AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={234-240},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002015502340240},
isbn={978-989-8111-84-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - GROUNDING AND MAKING SENSE OF AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
SN - 978-989-8111-84-5
AU - Woodman M.
AU - A. Moteleb A.
PY - 2009
SP - 234
EP - 240
DO - 10.5220/0002015502340240