Nilay V. Oza

Positioning Agility

Exploring the Sources of Waste in Kanban Software Development Projects

The application of agile software methods and more recently the integration of Lean practices contribute to the trend of continuous improvement in the software industry. One such area warranting proper empirical evidence is a project’s operational efficiency when using the Kanban method. This short paper takes a new angle and explores waste in the Kanban-driven software development project context. A preliminary research model is presented for helping the consequent replication of the study. The results from the empirical analysis suggest Kanban can be an effective method in visualizing and organizing the current work, but does not prevent waste from creeping in, although the overall project outcome may be successful.

Lean Enterprise Software and Systems - First International Conference, LESS 2010, Helsinki, Finland, October 17-20, 2010. Proceedings

Lean Software Development

Does cloud computing deliver the promised benefits for IT industry?

This paper examines the perceived benefits of cloud computing from the cloud users' perspectives using content analysis techniques and proposes that the empirical insights gained are valuable to both researchers and practitioners.

Agile Software Development Methods: A Comparative Review1

The results show that agile software development methods cover, without offering any rationale, different phases of the software development life-cycle and that most of these methods fail to provide adequate project management support.