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Conference Paper Quality Management, Complexity, Agile 10 October 2015

Program execution agility

By Ratnaraj, David Y. Quality has long been a major issue in the IT industry, typically resulting in billions annually industry wide in lost revenues due to system downtime. In this paper, the author demonstrates a…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Change Management, Agile, Innovation, Organizational Project Management, Manufacturing 11 May 2015

Making better, more responsive organizations

By Dülgerler, Mustafa Information technologies serve as an imperative part in organizational management, supply chain management, and service delivery in widely spread markets. New conceptual and technological…

Article Agile, Quality Management, Scheduling November 2013

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Policing the agile expressway

By Burba, Donovan The advent of agile represented a revolution. A departure from the do-this-then-that process dictated by waterfall, agile approaches unshackled team members' innate creativity and self-organization.…

Article Agile, Quality Management October 2013

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Quality time

By Bharadway, Daniel Quality is one of the pillars of good project management, and the ultimate payoff of quality is simple: happy customers. This article features the vice president of quality and electronic operations…

Article Agile, Quality Management, Risk Management May 2013

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Let us entertain you

By Fister Gale, Sarah Though they may not carry the gravity of a nuclear power plant or skyscraper, movies, video games, and other entertainment projects are big business. But not all entertainment projects are a hit.…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Agile, Organizational Project Management 23 October 2012

Moving to agile in a waterfall world

By Smith, Gerald D. | Feggins, Reedy Like many other traditional brick-and-mortar companies, The Kroger Co. has sought ways to improve its ability to deliver software solutions better, faster, and more cheaply as a means of staying…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Agile 9 May 2012

Agile versus Waterfall

By Fair, Jason Traditional waterfall project methodologies have been used for years to implement complex and large-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects. Often, ERP projects are over budget and late in…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Agile, Information Technology 22 October 2011

Balancing agility with conformance on complex government programs

By Zaleski, Peter S. | Bostian, Christopher B. | McDyer, Christopher J. Complex government transformation programs are subject to many of the same challenges encountered on commercial programs of similar size and scope. Government programs face additional challenges…

Conference Paper Strategy, PMO, Agile, Quality Management, Information Technology 22 October 2011

COTS project management strategy from a state government PMO perspective

By Douglas, Joyce We all work in environments in which government funding is stretched, program resources are syphoned, disparate applications are waiting on future funds for cycles to implement backlogged features,…

Conference Paper Quality Management, Agile 13 October 2009

Eggs, beef, and agile. What does "grade" have to do with project quality?

By Rodgers, James A. | Beeson, Tracy Quality has long been used to determine the success of a project's outcome. But the term's meaning is rather quite vague and the process of measuring project quality is often highly dependent upon…