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Synchronization of Scrum and Stage-Gate in Hybrid Product Development Projects of Manufacturing Companies

Synchronisation von Scrum und Stage-Gate in hybriden Entwicklungsprojekten produzierender Unternehmen

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More than ever, manufacturers today face dynamic business environments and volatile customer requirements. As a result, many companies are trying to adapt agile development methods that originated in the software industry and have shown to improve development productivity and time-to-market. Since a holistic application of agile methods to physical product development is rarely possible, manufacturers tend to selectively combine agile methods like Scrum with existing Stage-Gate processes in a so-called hybrid development process. Agile methods, however, contradict the sequential character of Stage-Gate development processes, so that the challenge lies in the successful synchronization of these two fundamentally different development approaches. The paper addresses this problem and provides a framework to determine the structural and contextual compatibility of Scrum and Stage-Gate as well as their project-specific, optimal proportion. In that, it provides guidance and assistance on how to combine the two development approaches efficiently and effectively.

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Die Industrie sieht sich heute mehr denn je mit einem dynamischen Geschäftsumfeld und volatilen Kundenanforderungen konfrontiert. Als Konsequenz versuchen viele Unternehmen agile Entwicklungsmethoden zu adaptieren, die ihren Ursprung in der Softwareindustrie haben und nachweislich die Entwicklungsproduktivität und die Time-to-Market verbessern. Da eine ganzheitliche Übertragung agiler Methoden auf die physische Produktentwicklung kaum möglich ist, neigen viele Unternehmen dazu, agile Methoden wie Scrum gezielt mit bestehenden Stage-Gate Prozessen in einem hybriden Entwicklungsprozess zu kombinieren. Agile Methoden widersprechen jedoch dem sequentiellen Charakter von Stage-Gate Entwicklungsprozessen, sodass die Herausforderung in der erfolgreichen Synchronisation dieser beiden verschiedenen Entwicklungsansätze liegt. Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit diesem Problem und präsentiert einen Ordnungsrahmen, mit dessen Hilfe die strukturelle und inhaltliche Kompatibilität von Scrum und Stage-Gate sowie die projektspezifische, optimale Verteilung der beiden Ansätze ermittelt werden können.

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Krug, M., Ays, J., Sauermann, F., Prote, JP., Schuh, G. (2019). Synchronization of Scrum and Stage-Gate in Hybrid Product Development Projects of Manufacturing Companies. In: Wulfsberg, J.P., Hintze, W., Behrens, BA. (eds) Production at the leading edge of technology. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60417-5_42

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