This paper investigates whether investments in lean agile software development via training, specifically retraining and coaching, increase software development productivity and produce commensurate improvements in financial performance of the software development firm. Two experiments involving...

This paper investigates whether investments in lean agile software development training increase software development productivity and produce commensurate improvements in financial performance of the software development firm. Two experiments involving software development teams were conducted...

Despite the popularity of platforms as a source of innovation and the growing market presence of Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) continues to face adoption challenges among software firms. Surprisingly, although this segment of cloud computing technology was first...

I argue that lean software development firms become more productive when their developers are retrained and coached on lean production techniques. I conducted two experiments on software development teams that use lean and agile software development practices. One experiment focused on lean...

I argue that lean software development firms become more productive if they align their lean managerial accounting systems and lean software development processes. I conduct an experiment on software development teams that have used lean and agile software development practices. A treatment...