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Projects VS Continuous Product Development - Does it Affect Benefits Realization?

Authors:
Sinan Sigurd Tanilkan
Jo Erskine Hannay

Keywords: Software Project; Continuous Product Development; Benefits Realization; Agile; DevOps; BizDev.

Abstract:
Software investments are traditionally implemented using project organization, which often leads project participants to focus on time, cost and scope, rather than the intended benefits of the investment. We conducted a survey to compare work organized as projects against work organized as Continuous Product Development. Our results indicate that: 1. Both project organization and Continuous Product Development is commonly used in practice. 2. Agile is very popular, but DevOps and the use of linear models for organizing work is also frequent. 3. CPD is perceived to outperform projects in realization of benefits. 4. We found no difference in perceived realization of benefits between those using or not using a set of ways of organizing work (including linear models, agile, DevOps, BizDev or program organization). We conclude that organizing work using Continuous Product Development is a viable alternative to project organization, especially in situations where failure must be avoided. Also, we suggest that more research should be conducted to better understand what factors of the different ways of organizing work affects the realization of benefits.

Pages: 20 to 25

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: April 24, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8394

ISBN: 978-1-68558-042-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2023 to April 28, 2023