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Sunil Kaushik ¹, Vinay Avasthi ¹, Ashish Bharadwaj ¹

Affiliations
1 University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun – 248007, Uttarakhand, IN

Abstract

Software projects are notorious for missing deadlines, schedule slippage and budget overrun. Dynamic market also makes tough for software companies to deliver the project meeting requirements and deliver the value to client. Agile and Lean Thinking have appeared as savior for these problems. Principally, Agile Methodologies are used for increasing flexibility, delivering the software fast and Lean Thinking helps in delivering value by eliminating waste. This paper studies both Lean Thinking and Agile Methodologies to find similarities, difference from an industry practitioner's point of view. Practitioner scrutinizes both Lean Thinking and Agile Methodologies and recommends the need of a new framework that has benefits of both frame work.

Keywords

Agile Methodologies, Lean Thinking, Software Engineering.

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Sunil Kaushik ¹, Ashish Bharadwaj ¹, Vinay Awasthi ¹, Rajiv Sharma ²

Affiliations
1 University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun - 248007, Uttarakhand, IN
2 Ministry of Science and Technology- Govt of India, New Delhi, IN

Abstract

Objectives: This paper presents a framework or approach for prioritizing the requirements for an ERP Implementation. Method: Proposed a novel framework or algorithm which calculates and ranks for the requirements based on priority rules such as ROI, available alternatives. Findings: The algorithm considers requirements as inputs and outputs the priority of processes in ERP Implementation. Improvement: The work can be extended to find the new variables and coefficient of performance or inclusion of constraints and paired requirements.

Keywords

ERP Requirements Priortization.

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Sunil Kaushik ¹, Ashish Bharadwaj ¹, Vinay Awasthi ¹, Rajiv Sharma ²

Affiliations
1 University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun – 248007, Uttarakhand, IN
2 Ministry of Science and Technology - Govt of India, New Delhi – 110016, IN

Abstract

Objectives: ERP Implementations are known for high failure rates and crossing the defined budget and schedule. The alarming figures produced in various studies have called for the need of Framework for ERP implementations. The objective is to propose a framework hybrid of Lean Thinking and Agile Methodologies to implement ERP systems to curtail schedule deviation, effort deviation and increase the quality. Methods/Analysis: To achieve the objective a new framework called “GenNext” has been proposed. The framework is in inception stage and is evolving continuously. The framework was applied to few controlled environment projects. The results, thus obtained, prima facie approves the framework. Future Work: The framework can be applied to large scale ERP Implementations and can be refined further. Findings: GenNext framework was able to save effort in a range of 15-20% from the traditional models. Applications: GenNext Framework can be used to optimize the projects implementing any COTS software such as ERP or Business Intelligence Implementations.

Keywords

Agile, ERP Implementation, Framework, Lean

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