Title :
Do You Dare to Ask Your HR Manager to Practice KANBAN? The Experience Report of an Offshore Software Company in Sri Lanka Introducing Agile Practices into its Human Resource (HR) Department
Author :
Wijewardena, Thushara
Author_Institution :
Exilesoft (Pvt.) Ltd., Colombo, Sri Lanka
Abstract :
This paper describes how a mid-sized offshore software development company in Sri Lanka, introduced agile practices to its HR department. The HR team now facilitates its own proactive agile project organization, thus overcoming most of the impediments often experienced by traditional HR departments.
Keywords :
DP industry; human resource management; kanban; HR manager; KANBAN; Sri Lanka; human resource department; offshore software development company; proactive agile project organization; Companies; Estimation; Recruitment; Software; Standards organizations; Training; Human Resource; KANBAN; lean; management; project management; scrum;
Conference_Titel :
Agile Conference (AGILE), 2011
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-426-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4370-3
DOI :
10.1109/AGILE.2011.20
