Business value optimisation in agile software development
Leminen, Rainer (2023)
2023
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023112932810
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023112932810
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The objective of this thesis is to discover ways and practises to identify business value and find out ways how to maximize business impact in agile software development framework. Research question comprises of two questions before and after traditional development phase: how to identify and rank most valuable development ideas and how to implement these efficiently throughout the organization.
Thesis is based on wide international multidisciplinary literature review starting from fundamentals with definition and composition of value, spanning from traditional software development related Scrum and DevOps methodologies to more industrially inclined lean philosophy, while having also outlook to productization, startup way and performance metrics to understand how these could help focusing on value creating activities - ultimately to maximize software’s business impact e.g. in form of better usability, increased efficiency or enablement of revenue increase.
As an outcome of research understanding of links between developments, KPIs and corporate strategy improved as well as composition of value to identify value potential of development ideas. Product backlog prioritisation research brought out some existing models which could be experimented. Development suggestions of the thesis relate improving development process with DevOps methodology, clearly defined innovation process and greater focus on com-mercialization phase of software developments.
Thesis is based on wide international multidisciplinary literature review starting from fundamentals with definition and composition of value, spanning from traditional software development related Scrum and DevOps methodologies to more industrially inclined lean philosophy, while having also outlook to productization, startup way and performance metrics to understand how these could help focusing on value creating activities - ultimately to maximize software’s business impact e.g. in form of better usability, increased efficiency or enablement of revenue increase.
As an outcome of research understanding of links between developments, KPIs and corporate strategy improved as well as composition of value to identify value potential of development ideas. Product backlog prioritisation research brought out some existing models which could be experimented. Development suggestions of the thesis relate improving development process with DevOps methodology, clearly defined innovation process and greater focus on com-mercialization phase of software developments.