• DocumentCode
    3298543
  • Title

    Agile: Adopting a New Methodology at Harvard Business School

  • Author

    Borges, Susan ; Gilmore, Jennifer ; Oliveira, Sarah Edrie

  • Author_Institution
    Harvard Bus. Sch., Boston
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    13-17 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    249
  • Lastpage
    254
  • Abstract
    As academic institutions become more reliant on Information Technology for everyday work and learning, Harvard Business School needed to find a better way to meet the ever-increasing demands of the faculty, staff, and student body without increasing resources. Adopting the Agile methodology was our way of responding proactively to these changes and in little over a year we have successfully implemented many projects with impressive results. This paper will discuss how we were able to become Agile, our challenges, lessons learned, and what we gained from this change.
  • Keywords
    educational institutions; organisational aspects; Harvard Business School; academic institution; agile methodology; organisational aspects; Data analysis; Databases; Educational products; Fellows; Information analysis; Information technology; Management training; Project management; Scheduling; Turning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Agile Conference (AGILE), 2007
  • Conference_Location
    Washington, DC
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2872-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/AGILE.2007.12
  • Filename
    4293604