Planning large-scale agile development using a dependency structure mapping model

Efforts to plan and coordinate complex software development using large-scale agile coordination techniques are recent phenomena. Some methodologies such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) attempt to provide a set of processes to help engineering teams who work on complex projects with significant coordination needs plan together while preserving agility at the team level. Are there existing system engineering techniques which can prove helpful as part of these methodologies? This thesis looks at one such technique - Dependency Structure Mapping (DSM) - in order to address a set of identified limitations of the program increment (PI) planning activity within SAFe. In doing so, this thesis illustrates how dependency data are assembled into a DSM model for a PI. It then applies the proposed model within a field study and discusses the results.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Bajpai, Siddharth.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Steven D. Eppinger.

• Engineering Systems Division.
• System Design and Management Program.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145239

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/145239