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RESEARCH-TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 36-46Publisher
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH INST, INC
DOI: 10.5437/08956308X5801236
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New product development; Agile; Scrum; Stage-Gate
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OVERVIEW: Product development at manufacturing companies is increasingly complex. Linear product development processes, including the traditional Stage-Gate process, cannot support the iterative cycles and external collaboration that characterize today's product development efforts. Hybrid processes combining elements of Agile and Stage-Gate models offer a more flexible alternative to conventional systems. A comparative case study of seven technology-intensive companies shows how combining Stage-Gate models, at the strategic level, with the Agile method Scrum, implemented at the execution level, can offer performance improvements and other advantages over even improved Stage-Gate processes. The key contribution of this study is a generic Agile/Stage-Gate hybrid process based on best practices as identified in the case companies.
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