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Business Development in Large-Scale Agile Software Development: Barriers and Enablers

Abstract

Currently, many financial organizations must undergo a digital transformation. In this study, we investigated a transformation in a Norwegian fintech company with the aim of understanding how the tasks performed by business development can be better aligned with the work of cross-functional development teams. Specifically, we examined the enablers and barriers to coordination between business development and software product development in large-scale agile software development. The organization under study had 25 software product development teams that followed an in-house agile model. We collected data by conducting 13 interviews and collecting various documents. Our findings suggest that having cross-functional fora, having a common understanding of what business development is, and coaching the whole organization to be more agile can improve coordination between business and software development.

Category

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Client

  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 321477
  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 309344

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • University of Oslo
  • SINTEF Digital / Software Engineering, Safety and Security

Year

2023

Publisher

Springer

Book

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops: XP 2022 Workshops, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 13–17, 2022, and XP 2023 Workshops, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 13–16, 2023, Revised Selected Papers

Issue

489

ISBN

978-3-031-48550-3

Page(s)

161 - 170

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