Benefits management and agile practices in software projects: how perceived benefits are impacted

Holgeid, Knut Kjetil; Jørgensen, Magne

doi:10.1109/cbi49978.2020.10057

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“…However, some studies have selected a single project as the unit of analysis, for example, by asking respondents to select a recent project and answer questions with this in mind (e.g. [33,58]). We recognise that a project-level study could give a richer understanding of the inner workings of the fabric of the organisation.…”

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Benefits management and Information Technology work distribution

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Organisations spend much money on Information Technology (IT) development and maintenance activities with the intention that these activities will create results that enable benefits for the organisations. This paper seeks to understand potential associations between IT development and maintenance activities and the adoption of benefits management practices to realise value for the organization. The aim is also to uncover potential differences between public and private organisations. We surveyed 86 Norwegian public and private organisations, including data collected in similar surveys every five years since 1993. For the period between 1998 and 2018, we observe a stable pattern of IT work distribution. We found that organisations that managed benefits put more effort into advancing functionality for the end-users than other organisations, and they realised more benefits. This advantage was particularly true for organisations that managed benefits beyond the early stages of the development lifecycle. Private organisations both managed and realised benefits to a larger extent than public organisations. Our findings can enable organisations to be evidence-based when choosing management practices to achieve a higher return on investments in IT development and maintenance activities.

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“…[LT45] suggest that it is hard to envisage effective realization benefits without a plan. Empirical support for this is given by Mohan et al [LT31], who found benefits planning to help in facilitating effectiveness in realizing planned benefits; Mohan et al [LT32], who reported a significant influence on realized benefits from benefits planning (path coefficient β ¼ 0.17, p < 0.01); Holgeid and Jørgensen [LT15], reported a significant increase in perceived client benefits when benefit plans were present (mean rank present/not present: 37.1/23.3, p ¼ 0.01); and Jørgensen [LT17], who found a significant increase (31% increase, p ¼ 0.03) in successful client benefits delivery when plans for realizing benefits were present (processes for prioritizing and managing activities during a project for achieving benefits).…”

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“…Further support for the practice of BM during project execution is given by Holgeid and Jørgensen [LT15] and Mohan et al [LT32], who reported that the ability to execute the benefits realization plans (measured by stakeholders' ability to manage the activities to realize benefits, benefits realization reporting, executing the benefits realization plan, and applying a methodology for benefits realization) was of significant importance in realizing benefits (path coefficient β ¼ 0.27, p < 0.001).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Most surveys are based on small sample sizes in the range of 30-110 respondents, except for the Nordic survey reported in the study by Hallikainen et al [LT11] and the Australian survey reported in the study by Lin [LT22]. Survey response rates are between 4% and 34%, with the exception of [LT15] (71%) and [LT17] (85%). Furthermore, although most of the studies analyse convenience samples, few can claim complete random selection, as the studies have been done in certain geographies with organizations possessing certain characteristics ranging from a specific sector (e.g.…”

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“…Empirical studies have found that the benefits tend to be inflated. Over-optimism in general has been found to be a factor when planned benefits are not realized [LT15]. Two studies report high levels of overstatement of benefits (54%-70%) [LT29, LT39] and four studies report a lower level of overstatement (26-48%) [LT24, LT28, LT45, LT46].…”

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Benefits management in software development: A systematic review of empirical studies

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Considerable resources are wasted on software projects delivering less than the planned benefits. Herein, the objective is to synthesize empirical evidence of the adoption and impact of benefits management (BM) in software development, and to suggest directions for future research. A systematic review of the literature is performed and identified 4836 scientific papers of which the authors found 47 to include relevant research. While most organizations identify and structure benefits at the outset of a project, fewer organizations report implementing BM as a continuous process throughout the project lifecycle. Empirical evidence gives support for positive impact on project outcome from the following BM practices: identifying and structuring benefits, planning benefits realization, BM during project execution, benefits evaluation and the practice of having people responsible for benefits realization. The authors suggest four research directions to understand (1) why BM practices sometimes not are adopted, (2) BM in relation to other management practices, (3) BM in agile software development and (4) BM in the context of organizations' value creation logics.

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Benefit Considerations in Project Decisions

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Benefits management and agile practices in software projects: how perceived benefits are impacted

Cited by 11 publications

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Benefits management and Information Technology work distribution

Benefits management in software development: A systematic review of empirical studies

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