An Empirical Study of Lead-Times in Incremental and Agile Software Development
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Kai Petersen |
| Title: | An Empirical Study of Lead-Times in Incremental and Agile Software Development |
| Conference name: | International Conference on Software Process (ICSP 2010) |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Pagination: | 345-356 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-642-14346-5 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| City: | Paderborn |
| ISI number: | 000286151700030 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Computing (Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation) School of Computing S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/com |
| Authors e-mail: | kai.petersen@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Short lead-times are essential in order to have a first-move advantages and to be able to react on changes on a fast-paced market. Agile software development is a development paradigm that aims at being able to respond quickly to changes in customer needs. So far, to the best of our knowledge no empirical study has investigated lead-times with regard to different aspects (distribution between phases, difference of lead-time with regard to architecture dependencies, and size). However, in order to improve lead-times it is important to understand the behavior of lead-times. In this study the lead-times of a large-scale company employing incremental and agile practices are analyzed. The analysis focuses on 12 systems at Ericsson AB, Sweden. |
| Subject: | Software Engineering\General |
| Keywords: | agile, incremental, lead-times |
| Note: | To be published in springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14347-2 |
