A brief history of budgeting: Reflections on beyond budgeting, its link to performance management and its appropriateness for software development

Garry Lohan

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Abstract

Beyond Budgeting is an innovation from the management accounting literature that seeks to improve performance and manage organisations through flexible sense-and-respond type mechanisms, rather than the more rigid traditional command-and-control models. This contemporary thinking in management accounting resonates strongly with contemporary thinking in information systems development (ISD). In particular, the Beyond Budgeting model shares many similarities with agile software development (ASD) with both having a distinctly agile and flexible foundation. This paper discusses the history of Beyond Budgeting, its relationship with performance management and its appropriateness for the field of software development.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLean Enterprise Software and Systems - 4th International Conference, LESS 2013
EditorsBrian Fitzgerald, Klaas-Jan Stol, Ken Power, Ricardo Valerdi, Kieran Conboy, Lorraine Morgan
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages81-105
Number of pages25
ISBN (Print)9783642449291
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems, LESS 2013 - Galway, Ireland
Duration: 1 Dec 20134 Dec 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume167
ISSN (Print)1865-1348

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems, LESS 2013
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityGalway
Period1/12/134/12/13

Keywords

  • Agile methods
  • Beyond budgeting
  • Budgeting
  • Performance management

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