Title: Analysing agile governance processes in the Brazilian Government scenario

Authors: Thaiana Lima; Carlos Eduardo Barbosa; Jano Moreira De Souza

Addresses: COPPE – Graduate School and Research in Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' COPPE – Graduate School and Research in Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ' COPPE – Graduate School and Research in Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract: The governance and management of IT resources is essential for the organisations because its practices control costs, risks, and security; thus, optimising the process involving technological resources. Agile governance processes is one type of IT governance. Assess and compare agile governance processes used in the Brazilian Government. Use SWOT, cross-impact analysis and interview techniques to understand and assess the IT governance practices, focused in the Brazilian Government sectors. We raised characteristics, strengths, limitations, and improvement points for the agile governance processes. Experts of the field assessed the relevance of each improvement point. Agile governance processes has some improvement points, which depend on the specific process used - PES or MAnGve.

Keywords: agile governance; government sector; IT governance; Brazil.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2017.084198

International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 2017 Vol.16 No.2, pp.131 - 150

Received: 04 Sep 2016
Accepted: 07 Dec 2016
Published online: 19 May 2017 *

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