文档介绍:Agility Across Time and Space
Darja Šmite Nils Brede Moe Pär J. Ågerfalk
Editors
Agility Across
Time and Space
Implementing Agile Methods
in Global Software Projects
Editors
Darja Šmite Nils Brede Moe
School of Engineering Dept. Information
Blekinge Institute of Technology & Communication Technology (ICT)
372 25 Ronneby SINTEF
Sweden 7465 Trondheim
@ Norway
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Pär J. Ågerfalk
Dept. Information Sciences
Uppsala University
Box 513
751 20 Uppsala
Sweden
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ISBN 978-3-642-12441-9 e-ISBN 978-3-642-12442-6
DOI -3-642-12442-6
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Foreword
Drawing from earlier definitions from Jim Highsmith or Steve Adolph and the
OODA loop, I like to define agility as “the ability of anization to react to
change in its environment faster than the rate of these changes.” T