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Orchestrating Agile IT Quality Management for Complex Solution Development Through Topic-Specific Partnerships in Large Enterprises – An Example on the EFIS Framework

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Enterprises have to find their ways to ensure systematic quality management in modern agile environments. However, there is no standard approach or framework which addresses the special demands of large enterprises. This work presents the approach of the Volkswagen Group IT to handle this topic. The work presents the challenge and the way to solve it from the perspective of the product owner of the quality innovation network and its embedding organization.

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Poth, A., Kottke, M., Riel, A. (2021). Orchestrating Agile IT Quality Management for Complex Solution Development Through Topic-Specific Partnerships in Large Enterprises – An Example on the EFIS Framework. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Messnarz, R., Reiner, M. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85521-5_7

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