Abstract
The Beyond Budgeting performance management model enables companies to
keep pace with changing environments, to quickly create and adapt
strategy and to empower people throughout the organisation to make
effective choices. We argue that this performance management model may
be ideal for agile software development. Although drawn from different
disciplines, both are designed for a customer-orientated, fast-changing
operating environment and the Beyond Budgeting model suggests a useful
overall framework for research in the performance management of agile
software development teams. This paper uses the model as a lens to
examine the performance management of agile software development teams
within a large multinational. The findings show that some traditional
performance management processes (most notably the budgeting process),
which were designed to aid in the performance management of software
development teams may impede the performance of agile teams due to
their suitability adherence to the requirements of the systems
development lifecycle model.
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of International Conference on Lean Software and Systems (LESS2010) |
| Place of Publication | Helsinki, Finland, October 17-20 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2010 |
Authors (Note for portal: view the doc link for the full list of authors)
- Authors
- Lohan, G., Conboy, K. & Lang, M.