DOI: 10.5176/2251-1970_BizStrategy18.125
Authors: Günther Schuh, Stephan Schröder, Tim Wetterney and Paul Zeller
Abstract: Due to an increasing volatility of market demands, decreasing product life- and development cycle times as well as an increasing product-complexity, companies are exposed to an increasing pressure to innovate. Today’s sequential and plandriven development approaches, focused on efficiency, accurate, long-term planning and risk minimization, does not seem to meet these increasing challenges sufficiently anymore. That is why many companies are adapting their traditional development processes, aiming for project-specific designs that are referred to as “Agile Product Development” – flexible, adaptive and accelerated processes. Originally developed for the software industry, these new agile development approaches differ significantly from traditional development approaches for physical products and not all development projects and circumstances in producing companies are as suitable as others for these new methods. Developed in a consortial research project together with six companies from producing industry this paper presents therefore a set of criteria to evaluate the suitability of development projects for the use of agile, iterative development approaches.
Keywords: Agile Development Processes; SCRUM; product development; hardware; physical product
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