The software intensive industry is moving towards the adoption of a value-driven and
adaptive real-time business paradigm. The traditional view of software as an item that …

Agile development and operations (DevOps) is a model for delivering software as a service
that comprises a set of practices and tools combining the responsibilities for both developing …

Software development processes have evolved according to market needs. Fast changing
conditions that characterize current software markets have favored methods advocating …

Large open and closed source organizations like Google, Facebook and Mozilla are
migrating their products towards rapid releases. While this allows faster time-to-market and …

Against the backdrop of the growing adoption of Kanban in a variety of software
development domains, this paper reports on how a Systems Thinking approach was used to …

Lean production (LP) has been increasingly adopted in complex systems, such as
healthcare and construction sites. However, little is known of the extent to which the lean …

This research aims to contribute to the development of knowledge in project management,
by searching for management approaches that can be useful in construction projects. A …

Maturity models are used to guide improvements in the software engineering field and a
number of maturity models for agile methods have been proposed in the last years. These …

Kanban is a well-known agile method first implemented in Toyota's manufacturing process
in the 1950s, later spreading across various industries and academic fields. It focuses on …

Purpose In spite of huge advancement of Lean in the manufacturing sector, its advantage in
the service sector is not fully investigated. The purpose of this paper is to cover this gap in …