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Combination of the Earned Value Method and the Agile Approach – A Case Study of a Production System Implementation

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Intelligent Systems in Production Engineering and Maintenance (ISPEM 2018)

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A combination of the Earned Value Method and the Agile approach is proposed by means of a case study of new production system implementation. The project was managed in the traditional way. Advantages of introducing Agile elements (mainly concerning the communication among all the project stakeholders) into the traditional Earned Value Method are shown.

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  1. Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland

    Dorota Kuchta

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  1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Anna Burduk

  2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Edward Chlebus

  3. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Tomasz Nowakowski

  4. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Agnieszka Tubis

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Kuchta, D. (2019). Combination of the Earned Value Method and the Agile Approach – A Case Study of a Production System Implementation. In: Burduk, A., Chlebus, E., Nowakowski, T., Tubis, A. (eds) Intelligent Systems in Production Engineering and Maintenance. ISPEM 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 835. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97490-3_9

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