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Influential factors of aligning Spotify squads in mission-critical and offshore projects – a longitudinal embedded case study [PDF]

, 2018
Changing the development process of an organization is one of the toughest and riskiest decisions. This is particularly true if the known experiences and practices of the new considered ways of working are relative and subject to contextual assumptions ...
A Sutharshan, AS Campanelli, B Fitzgerald, B Glaser, BG Glaser, C Larman, C Larman, C Melo, D Leffingwell, H Robinson, H Saeeda, J Corbin, JM Bass, K Dikert, M Drury, M Myers, NB Moe, P Runeson, RE Kraut, S Nerur, T Dingsøyr, T Dingsøyr, T Dingsøyr, T Dybå   +23 more
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Improving Manufacturing Efficiency in Developing Countries: A Value Stream Mapping Case Study of a Tanzanian Rice Mill

Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 9, September 2025.
The study used value stream mapping to identify value‐adding and nonvalue‐adding activities in a rice milling industry which was used as a case study. EdrawMax version 10.5.0 created current and future state maps, revealing improvements in lead time, cycle time, employee performance, and production output.
Juma Mohamed Matindana, Francis Daudi Sinkamba   +1 more
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Managing Assembly Production Processes with KANBAN and CONWIP [PDF]

, 2008
To control the production of parts in a production process, managers can choose aproper production control policy. This paper provides a performance analysis ofproduction control systems in a business process, which is modeled as adiscrete-event system ...
Khojasteh-Ghamari Yaghoub, Sato Ryo
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Driving Changes: Analyzing the Factors Influencing Lean Manufacturing Adoption in Tanzania Through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)

Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 9, September 2025.
The study aimed to determine the factors influencing the adoption of lean manufacturing for manufacturing industries in Tanzania. PLS‐SEM and the relative importance index were used to analyze the data. The study revealed that external and policy drivers have positive effects on the adoption of lean manufacturing.
Juma M. Matindana, Francis D. Sinkamba, Mussa I. Mgwatu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Card-based production control:a review of the control mechanisms underpinning Kanban, ConWIP, POLCA and COBACABANA systems [PDF]

, 2016
Since the emergence of Kanban, there has been much research into card-based control systems. This has included attempts to improve Kanban and/or develop alternative systems, particularly ConWIP (i.e. Constant Work-In-Process), POLCA (i.e.
Protzman III, Charles W, Stevenson, Mark, Thurer, Matthias   +2 more
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SPDL Model Checking via Property-Driven State Space Generation [PDF]

, 2007
In this report we describe how both, memory and time requirements for stochastic model checking of SPDL (stochastic propositional dynamic logic) formulae can significantly be reduced. SPDL is the stochastic extension of the multi-modal program logic PDL.\
Haverkort, Boudewijn R., Kuntz, Matthias
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Scrum2Kanban: Integrating Kanban and Scrum in a University Software Engineering Capstone Course

, 2018
Using university capstone courses to teach agile software development methodologies has become commonplace, as agile methods have gained support in professional software development.
Georgia, Komus Ayelt, Mahnic Viljan, Mahnič V, Persson Mia   +4 more
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Inclusion of Autistic IT Workforce in Action: An Auticon Approach

Information Systems Journal, Volume 35, Issue 5, Page 1439-1459, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the IT workforce management practices of auticon, a pioneering international IT consultancy firm from Germany that employs autistic individuals as its core workforce to deliver economically and socially sustainable IT services.
Olga Abramova, Jan Recker, Ursula Schemm, Lukas‐Daniel Barwitzki   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘BETTER SIDE BY SIDE’: An Integrative Framework Between Lean Manufacturing and Circular Economy

Business Strategy &Development, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT The integration of Lean Manufacturing (LM) and the Circular Economy (CE) represents a promising strategy to foster more sustainable production systems aligned with the principles of cleaner production. This study conducts an integrative systematic literature review, based on the PRISMA protocol, with the aim of mapping, organizing, and ...
Talita Borges Teixeira, Adriano Alves Teixeira, Tiago Estrela Da Cunha Moraes, Rosane Aparecida Gomes Battistelle   +3 more
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Paralysing parallelism? Co‐existing agile and traditional organisational paths in large‐scale telecommunications

European Management Review, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 517-532, June 2025.
Abstract Previous research on co‐existing paths has usually revolved around the development of a novel path that finally supersedes an existing path. In contrast, this study introduces an empirically grounded conception of the dynamic interplay between two intentionally co‐existing organisational paths, one path persisting although in decline and one ...
Ronja Zientara, Gordon Müller‐Seitz
wiley   +1 more source