Overview
- Provides a truly holistic view on the foundations of an agile enterprise by combining business, process and system agility
- Combines agile development processes with model-driven approaches and architectural patterns
- Implements uncertainty reduction via an incremental and iterative evolution of the entire collection of artifacts constituting a service
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Enterprise Engineering Series (TEES)
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Economies around the globe have evolved into being largely service-oriented economies. Consumers no longer just want a printer or a car, they rather ask for a printing service or a mobility service. In addition, service-oriented organizations increasingly exploit new devices, technologies and infrastructures. Agility is the ability to deal with such changing requirements and environments. Agile ways of working embrace change as a positive force and harness it to the organization's competitive advantage.
The approach described in this book focuses on the notion of a service as a piece of functionality that offers value to its customers. Instead of solely looking at agility in the context of system or software development, agility is approached in a broader context. The authors illustrate three kinds of agility that can be found in an agile enterprise: business, process and system agility. These three types of agility reinforce each other and establish the foundation for the agile enterprise. Architecture, patterns, models, and all of the best practices in system development contribute to agile service development and building agile applications.
This book addresses two audiences. On the one hand, it aims at agile and architecture practitioners who are looking for more agile ways of working in designing and building business services or who are interested in extending and improving their agile methods by using models and model-based architectures. On the other hand, it addresses students of (enterprise) architecture and software development or service science courses, both in computer science and in business administration.Reviews
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agile Service Development
Book Subtitle: Combining Adaptive Methods and Flexible Solutions
Editors: Marc Lankhorst
Series Title: The Enterprise Engineering Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28188-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28187-7Published: 20 April 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43011-4Published: 09 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28188-4Published: 23 April 2012
Series ISSN: 1867-8920
Series E-ISSN: 1867-8939
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 204
Topics: IT in Business, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Software Engineering, Models and Principles, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing, Organization