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In order to know the real status of all the applications and systems in a company, an inventory of all the elements that could be released can be very useful. This paper presents a Releasable Inventory Tool, which was developed to support Agility. It facilitates the creation of an environment aligned to Lean and Agile principles. The releasable inventory enables strategic, tactical, and operational decisions by providing details on current releasable elements, which are constantly monitored and evaluated to support continual improvement, alignment, and value creation.
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This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology with ERDF funds under grants TIN2016-76956-C3-3-R.
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Pacheco, M., Mas, A., Mesquida, AL. (2020). Building an Environment for Agility: A Releasable Inventory Tool. In: Yilmaz, M., Niemann, J., Clarke, P., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_44
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