Analyzing the Trade-Off between Traditional and Agile Software Development : a Cost/Risk Perspective

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Afflerbach, Patrick ; Kratzer, Simon ; Röglinger, Maximilian ; Stelzl, Simon:
Analyzing the Trade-Off between Traditional and Agile Software Development : a Cost/Risk Perspective.
In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI). - St. Gallen, Switzerland , 2017

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Abstract

Digitalization heralds a new era of enterprise IT. It challenges CIOs to find a balance between renovating legacy IT and seizing the opportunities of dig- ital technologies to keep up with competitors and start-ups. This requires organ- izations to operate two software development modes simultaneously: the tradi- tional and the agile mode. Despite substantial research on both modes, little is known about whether to implement distinct software development projects tradi- tionally or agile. As a first step to addressing this gap, we propose a quantitative decision model that compares the cost and risk profiles of both modes associated with the implementation of a distinct project. The decision model integrates qual- itative and quantitative characteristics of the project in focus and of the traditional and the agile mode. As for evaluation, we implemented the decision model as a software prototype and validated its behavior using sample projects as well as a sensitivity analysis.