Software Engineering for Enterprise System Agility : Emerging Research and Opportunities (Paperback)

"This book focuses on agile management in enterprises. This includes business process improvement based on technical constraints and business requirements. It presents a set of patterns that contain specific agile practices for software development. This allows agile development and process management in enterprises"-- Sustaining a competitive edge in today's business world requires innovative approaches to product, service, and management systems design and performance. Advances in computing technologies have presented managers with additional challenges as well as further opportunities to enhance their business models. Software Engineering for Enterprise System Agility: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a collection of innovative research that identifies the critical technological and management factors in ensuring the agility of business systems and investigates process improvement and optimization through software development. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as business architecture, cloud computing, and agility patterns, this publication is ideally designed for business managers, business professionals, software developers, academicians, researchers, and upper-level students interested in current research on strategies for improving the flexibility and agility of businesses and their systems.