Beyond budgeting: A performance management model for software development teams

Garry Lohan, Kieran Conboy, Michael Lang

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLean Enterprise Software and Systems - First International Conference, LESS 2010, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages126-138
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)3642164153, 9783642164156
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume65 LNBIP
ISSN (Print)1865-1348

Keywords

  • Agile Methods
  • Beyond Budgeting
  • Organizational Agility

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