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Manish Gupta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Swimming Upstream in Turbulent Waters: Auditing Agile Development
Global Business Expansion, 1Co-Authors: Priyadarsini Kannan Krishnamachariar, Manish GuptaAbstract:Agile Approach is a pragmatic fashion of software development, wherein the requirements are flexible to the changing needs of the customers, fast paced markets and the iterations of software are implemented and delivered based on business priorities. A risky or experimental project where the project requirements are not clear/not defined well in advance, are the most suitable candidates for adopting Agile Approach, as Agile enables us to work with calculated risks during development, aiming to reduce the risks. The value of any implementation is realized only if it delivers benefits to organization and users, which could be assured by effective auditing of the implementation by understanding the implications of Agile Approach and figuring out right audit techniques and processes. Many organizations already have well established audit functions and matured IT Audit procedures for auditing traditional SDLC waterfall processes. Yet the methods for auditing software development based on Agile Approach requires a different attitude and audit techniques that goes well with the proactive nature of Agile Approach. This paper aims to present risk based audit Approach on the Agile implementation of software development, how risk identification and assessment can be merged along with the phases of software development and the ways by which Agile techniques can be effectively utilized as tools for audit.
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Swimming Upstream in Turbulent Waters
Advances in Information Security Privacy and Ethics, 1Co-Authors: Priyadarsini Kannan Krishnamachariar, Manish GuptaAbstract:Agile Approach is a pragmatic fashion of software development, wherein the requirements are flexible to the changing needs of the customers, fast paced markets and the iterations of software are implemented and delivered based on business priorities. A risky or experimental project where the project requirements are not clear/not defined well in advance, are the most suitable candidates for adopting Agile Approach, as Agile enables us to work with calculated risks during development, aiming to reduce the risks. The value of any implementation is realized only if it delivers benefits to organization and users, which could be assured by effective auditing of the implementation by understanding the implications of Agile Approach and figuring out right audit techniques and processes. Many organizations already have well established audit functions and matured IT Audit procedures for auditing traditional SDLC waterfall processes. Yet the methods for auditing software development based on Agile Approach requires a different attitude and audit techniques that goes well with the proactive nature of Agile Approach. This paper aims to present risk based audit Approach on the Agile implementation of software development, how risk identification and assessment can be merged along with the phases of software development and the ways by which Agile techniques can be effectively utilized as tools for audit.
Robert J. Walters - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Pragmatic web service design: An Agile Approach with the service responsibility and interaction design method
Computer Science - Research and Development, 2009Co-Authors: David E Millard, Noura Abbas, Gary Brian Wills, Lester Gilbert, Yvonne Howard, Hugh C. Davis, Robert J. WaltersAbstract:Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are increasingly deployed to achieve distributed systems that are modular, flexible and extensible. However, designing for SOA can be challenging; there are issues involving the granularity of the cooperating services, problems with proprietary data models being exchanged, and there are no currently accepted conventions for describing a service or its interactions at an abstract level. This paper gives an overview of the Service Responsibility and Interaction Design Method (SRI-DM), an Agile Approach for engineering a Web Service design based on capturing a scenario as a use-case, factoring this into a set of Service Responsibility and Collaboration Cards, and constructing a Sequence diagram illustrating their interactions in fulfilling the scenario. Through two case studies the paper shows how using SRI-DM can expose many of the problems of over-engineering SOA and help to create simpler, more pragmatic web service designs.
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ECOWS - The Service Responsibility and Interaction Design Method: Using an Agile Approach for Web Service Design
Fifth European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'07), 2007Co-Authors: David E Millard, Noura Abbas, Lester Gilbert, Yvonne Howard, Robert J. Walters, Hugh C. Davis, Gary WillsAbstract:Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are increasingly deployed to achieve distributed systems that are modular, flexible and extensible. Designing for a SOA can be difficult, however. There are issues involving the granularity of the cooperating services, and there are no currently accepted conventions for describing a service or its interactions at an abstract level. This paper presents the Service Responsibility and Interaction Design Method (SRI-DM), an Agile Approach for engineering a Web Service design, based on capturing a scenario as a use-case, factoring this into a set of Service Responsibility and Collaboration Cards, and constructing a Sequence diagram illustrating their interactions in fulfilling the scenario. The paper presents the notation for each step and describes with the aid of an example how this process is used to create a service design within the domain of e-assessment.
David E Millard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Pragmatic web service design: An Agile Approach with the service responsibility and interaction design method
Computer Science - Research and Development, 2009Co-Authors: David E Millard, Noura Abbas, Gary Brian Wills, Lester Gilbert, Yvonne Howard, Hugh C. Davis, Robert J. WaltersAbstract:Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are increasingly deployed to achieve distributed systems that are modular, flexible and extensible. However, designing for SOA can be challenging; there are issues involving the granularity of the cooperating services, problems with proprietary data models being exchanged, and there are no currently accepted conventions for describing a service or its interactions at an abstract level. This paper gives an overview of the Service Responsibility and Interaction Design Method (SRI-DM), an Agile Approach for engineering a Web Service design based on capturing a scenario as a use-case, factoring this into a set of Service Responsibility and Collaboration Cards, and constructing a Sequence diagram illustrating their interactions in fulfilling the scenario. Through two case studies the paper shows how using SRI-DM can expose many of the problems of over-engineering SOA and help to create simpler, more pragmatic web service designs.
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ECOWS - The Service Responsibility and Interaction Design Method: Using an Agile Approach for Web Service Design
Fifth European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS'07), 2007Co-Authors: David E Millard, Noura Abbas, Lester Gilbert, Yvonne Howard, Robert J. Walters, Hugh C. Davis, Gary WillsAbstract:Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are increasingly deployed to achieve distributed systems that are modular, flexible and extensible. Designing for a SOA can be difficult, however. There are issues involving the granularity of the cooperating services, and there are no currently accepted conventions for describing a service or its interactions at an abstract level. This paper presents the Service Responsibility and Interaction Design Method (SRI-DM), an Agile Approach for engineering a Web Service design, based on capturing a scenario as a use-case, factoring this into a set of Service Responsibility and Collaboration Cards, and constructing a Sequence diagram illustrating their interactions in fulfilling the scenario. The paper presents the notation for each step and describes with the aid of an example how this process is used to create a service design within the domain of e-assessment.
Dorota Kuchta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Implementation of Scrum Retrospective in the Process of Improving Logistics Organization
Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 40th Anniversary International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Tech, 2020Co-Authors: Paweł Rola, Dorota KuchtaAbstract:Agile Approach, and especially Srum, has gained huge importance in project management and numerous organisations acknowledge its utility for improving their processes. However, Agile Approach has been mainly applied to IT organisations. The main goal of this paper is to consider possible advantages of its introduction into the transport sector. It has to be underlined that the decision and the process to implement Agile Approach in an organization are extremely difficult. The first step of Agile implementation is conducting a trial implementation in accordance with the principles of one or more of Agile methods or practices in a relatively small area. In the present paper the case of a forwarding company is discussed in which the Agile practice called retrospective was implemented. The short term goal of this implementation was to support process of collaborative problem identification and solving, the result of which should be improving own internal process of forwarding agency. The implementation and the advantages identified so far are presented and analysed.
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ISAT (3) - Implementation of Scrum Retrospective in the Process of Improving Logistics Organization
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2019Co-Authors: Paweł Rola, Dorota KuchtaAbstract:Agile Approach, and especially Srum, has gained huge importance in project management and numerous organisations acknowledge its utility for improving their processes. However, Agile Approach has been mainly applied to IT organisations. The main goal of this paper is to consider possible advantages of its introduction into the transport sector. It has to be underlined that the decision and the process to implement Agile Approach in an organization are extremely difficult. The first step of Agile implementation is conducting a trial implementation in accordance with the principles of one or more of Agile methods or practices in a relatively small area. In the present paper the case of a forwarding company is discussed in which the Agile practice called retrospective was implemented. The short term goal of this implementation was to support process of collaborative problem identification and solving, the result of which should be improving own internal process of forwarding agency. The implementation and the advantages identified so far are presented and analysed.
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Combination of the Earned Value Method and the Agile Approach – A Case Study of a Production System Implementation
Intelligent Systems in Production Engineering and Maintenance, 2019Co-Authors: Dorota KuchtaAbstract:A combination of the Earned Value Method and the Agile Approach is proposed by means of a case study of new production system implementation. The project was managed in the traditional way. Advantages of introducing Agile elements (mainly concerning the communication among all the project stakeholders) into the traditional Earned Value Method are shown.
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Agile Approach in Crisis Management – A Case Study of the Anti-outbreak Activities Preventing an Epidemic Crisis
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2018Co-Authors: Jan Betta, Dorota Kuchta, Stanislaw Drosio, Stanisław Stanek, Agnieszka SkomraAbstract:The paper presents a case study which illustrates a possible application of Agile Approach to crisis management. The proposal of such a merger was done in another paper, here its implementation to epidemic crisis management is described. It is shown that the nature of activities during the epidemic crisis suits the Agile philosophy fairly well and that the application of Agile frameworks to epidemic crisis management may substantially increase its efficiency, mainly due to the communication patterns which are required by the Agile Approach.
Gunjan Mansingh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An Agile Approach for academic analytics: a case study
Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 2017Co-Authors: Maurice Mcnaughton, Lila Rao, Gunjan MansinghAbstract:Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe an Agile Approach to academic analytics that is currently being applied on one of the campuses of a leading higher educational institution in the Caribbean. This Agile Approach enables the rapid development of a strategic analytics roadmap and proof-of-concept analytics applications for the institution. Design/methodology/Approach The Approach was developed using Design Science which involves the development and rigorous evaluation of an artifact. The Agile Approach is the artifact and the design evaluation was done using the observational method of primary cases studies where the artifact is studied in depth in a business environment, in this case this was a leading higher educational institution in the Caribbean. Findings The final output, the roadmap, highlights the importance of a balanced portfolio of analytics initiatives, relevant and tailored to the institution’s specific context that includes technology and applications projects, as well as capacity building, organizational structures and policy initiatives. Research limitations/implications The Approach that was used and the specific techniques proposed can be extended by other researchers and in so doing will increase the body of research as it relates to Agile analytics. Practical implications The Approach will be beneficial to educational institutions that are considering how best to harness the strategic value of its data. The analytics roadmap will allow the institution to be clear about the path they should take to maximize their investments in analytics initiatives. Originality/value A number of existing well-accepted research techniques have been synthesized in the development and application of this Agile Approach. The Approach and final roadmap consider the institution’s readiness for and understanding of what is involved in analytics before investing significant resources in its adoption.
