This concise book provides a survival toolkit for efficient, large-scale software development. Discussing a multi-contextual research framework that aims to harness human-related factors in order to improve flexibility, it includes a carefully selected blend of models, methods, practices, and case studies. To investigate mission-critical communication aspects in system engineering, it also examines diverse, i.e. cross-cultural and multinational, environments.

This book helps students better organize their knowledge bases, and presents conceptual frameworks, handy practices and case-based examples of agile development in diverse environments. Together with the authors' previous books, "Crisis Management for Software Development and Knowledge Transfer" (2016) and "Managing Software Crisis: A Smart Way to Enterprise Agility" (2018), it constitutes a comprehensive reference resource adds value to this book.

Focuses on human-related factors in agile development of state-of-the-art, enterprise-level businesses Presents well-known agile methodologies and practices with a focus on their evolutionary changes and the resulting benefits Identifies agile diversity to help the stakeholders understand and identify the key social and human factors that critically affect agility

Autorentext

Dr. Sergey V. Zykov completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in the year 1994 and 2000, respectively. Presently, Dr. Zykov is working as Professor in National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Russia. He is a member of many professional organisations like IWA, IIIS and KES Intl. He is a member of many reputed journal boards - International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering System and Intelligent Decision Technologies. He has published three books - "Managing Software Crisis: A Smart Way to Enterprise Agility" , "Agile Enterprise Engineering: Smart Application of Human Factors" and "Crisis Management for Software Development and Knowledge Transfer" by Springer, and "Software Engineering for Enterprise System Agility" with IGI Global.

Inhalt
From Adhoc to Agility: a General Framework.- Socio-cultural Aspects of Agility.- Agile Knowledge Management.- Agility at Scale.- Mastering Agility.- Developing and Fostering Smart Ecosystems.