• 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