DocumentCode
3092625
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
fYear
2011
fDate
7-13 Aug. 2011
Firstpage
161
Lastpage
167
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/AGILE.2011.20
Filename
6005519
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