Improving responsiveness, bug detection, and delays in a bureaucratic setting: A longitudinal empirical IID adoption case study

Abstract

This paper empirically studies a group of projects in a large bureaucratic government agency that adopted iterative and incremental development (IID). We found that a project that followed IID since inception provided substantially better bug-fixing responsiveness and found bugs earlier in the development lifecycle than existing projects that migrated to IID. IID practices also supported managerial decisions that lead to on-time & on-budget delivery. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.