Rapid Delivery of Software: The Effect of Alignment on Time to Market

Kouros Pechlivanidis; Gerard Wagenaar

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-21388-5_24

Rapid Delivery of Software: The Effect of Alignment on Time to Market

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Abstract

In Scrum, teams working collaboratively on interdependent pieces of software face alignment issues as they need to coordinate their work. Organisations aim to minimise time to market of their products, which makes it relevant to identify how alignment issues affect time to market. Currently, empirical evidence of the effect of implementing alignment activities on delivering software is scarce. This research aims to identify those alignment activities that shorten the time to market of backlog items. First, examination of key concepts led to a grounded choice of alignment activities taken into account. Use of alignment activities in development of features was identified by sending feature owners a close-ended questionnaire on the alignment of their collaborating Scrum teams. The cycle times of backlog items were measured by using the application programmable interface of the agile tool used for tracking backlog items. Results show that when user stories were developed using a shared Definition of Ready, process and lead time decreased significantly. Process and lead time also differed between user stories implementing a different number of shared feedback sessions, where using two shared feedback sessions per sprint resulted in the lowest process and lead time.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Subtitle of host publication	23rd International Conference, PROFES 2022, Jyväskylä, Finland, November 21–23, 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Davide Taibi, Marco Kuhrmann, Tommi Mikkonen, Jil Klünder, Pekka Abrahamsson
Publisher	Springer
Pages	351-365
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-21388-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-21387-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21388-5_24
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13709 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Keywords

Agile
Agile tools
Alignment
Scrum
Scrum collaboration
Time to market

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Pechlivanidis, K., & Wagenaar, G. (2022). Rapid Delivery of Software: The Effect of Alignment on Time to Market. In D. Taibi, M. Kuhrmann, T. Mikkonen, J. Klünder, & P. Abrahamsson (Eds.), Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 23rd International Conference, PROFES 2022, Jyväskylä, Finland, November 21–23, 2022, Proceedings (pp. 351-365). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13709 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21388-5_24

Pechlivanidis, Kouros ; Wagenaar, Gerard. / Rapid Delivery of Software: The Effect of Alignment on Time to Market. Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 23rd International Conference, PROFES 2022, Jyväskylä, Finland, November 21–23, 2022, Proceedings. editor / Davide Taibi ; Marco Kuhrmann ; Tommi Mikkonen ; Jil Klünder ; Pekka Abrahamsson. Springer, 2022. pp. 351-365 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Pechlivanidis, K & Wagenaar, G 2022, Rapid Delivery of Software: The Effect of Alignment on Time to Market. in D Taibi, M Kuhrmann, T Mikkonen, J Klünder & P Abrahamsson (eds), Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 23rd International Conference, PROFES 2022, Jyväskylä, Finland, November 21–23, 2022, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13709 LNCS, Springer, pp. 351-365. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21388-5_24

Rapid Delivery of Software: The Effect of Alignment on Time to Market. / Pechlivanidis, Kouros; Wagenaar, Gerard.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 23rd International Conference, PROFES 2022, Jyväskylä, Finland, November 21–23, 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Davide Taibi; Marco Kuhrmann; Tommi Mikkonen; Jil Klünder; Pekka Abrahamsson. Springer, 2022. p. 351-365 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13709 LNCS).

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Pechlivanidis K, Wagenaar G. Rapid Delivery of Software: The Effect of Alignment on Time to Market. In Taibi D, Kuhrmann M, Mikkonen T, Klünder J, Abrahamsson P, editors, Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 23rd International Conference, PROFES 2022, Jyväskylä, Finland, November 21–23, 2022, Proceedings. Springer. 2022. p. 351-365. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-21388-5_24

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