Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Building lean thinking in a telecom software development organization: strengths and challenges
Año:2013
Áreas de investigación
  • Ciencias de la computación y tecnología informática
Datos
Descripción
The potential shown by Lean in different domains has aroused interest in the software industry. However, it remains unclear how Lean can be effectively applied in a domain such as software development that is fundamentally different from manufacturing. This study explores how Lean principles are implemented in software development companies and the challenges that arise when applying Lean Software Development. For that, a case study was conducted at Ericsson R&D Finland, which successfully adopted Scrum in 2009 and subsequently started a comprehensible transition to Lean in 2010. Focus groups were conducted with company representatives to help devise a questionnaire supporting the creation of a Lean mindset in the company (Team Amplifier). Afterwards, the questionnaire was used in 16 teams based in Finland, Hungary and China to evaluate the status of the transformation. By using Lean thinking, Ericsson R&D Finland has made important improvements to the quality of its products, customer satisfaction and transparency within the organization. Moreover, build times have been reduced over ten times and the number of commits per day has increased roughly five times.The study makes two main contributions to research. First, the main factors that have enabled Ericsson R&D?s achievements are analysed. Elements such as ?network of product owners?, ?continuous integration?, ?work in progress limits? and ?communities of practice? have been identified as being of fundamental importance. Second, three categories of challenges in using Lean Software Development were identified: ?achieving flow?, ?transparency? and ?creating a learning culture?.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
2013 International Conference on Software and System Process
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
San Francisco, CA, USA
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
978-1-4503-2062-7
DOI
10.1145/2486046.2486064
Fecha inicio congreso
18/05/2013
Fecha fin congreso
19/05/2013
Desde la página
98
Hasta la página
107
Título de las actas
Proceeding ICSSP 2013 Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software and System Process
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Participantes
  • Autor: Pilar Rodriguez U of Oulu, Finland
  • Autor: Kirsi Mikkonen Ericsson, Finland
  • Autor: Pasi kuvaja University of Oulu, Finland
  • Autor: Markku Oivo U. of Oulu, Finland
  • Autor: Juan Garbajosa Sopeña UPM
Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de tecnología de software y sistemas
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: Tecnologías del Software y Sistemas Multimedia para la Sostenibilidad (CITSEM)