Paper Info
Title
Choosing Agile or Plan-driven Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementations - A study on 21 Implementations from 20 Companies.
Abstract
Agile methods have gotten a good reputation for managing projects in many different sectors. A challenge among practitioners in the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) domain, is to decide if an agile method is suitable or not for new projects. This study investigates how decision-makers select between agile and plan-driven ERP implementation projects in relation to known factors from previous research. We selected projects that the decision-makers assessed as successful, but borderline, agile and plan-driven projects already implemented and let project managers fill out a survey consisting of key agile or plan-driven characteristics. We found that the assessment made by decision-makers did not differ on any aspects except higher executive buy-in for process change, and the prioritization of low cost in the agile projects. This study highlights the difficulty in selecting implementation strategy for a large part of the ERP implementations, and the data show that the decision-makers could not make such a decision at an early point in time without contextual knowledge.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
STPIS@CAiSE
Journal
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
4th International Workshop on the Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS2018), 2018
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucas Gren101.35
Alexander Wong235169.61
Erik Kristoffersson300.34