Closed-Loop Agile Development Delivers Efficiency and Compliance in Industry 4.0 in the Regulated Sector

Bhattacharya, K and McGuigan, S and Nambiar, GD and Gangopadhyay, S (2023) Closed-Loop Agile Development Delivers Efficiency and Compliance in Industry 4.0 in the Regulated Sector. In: 9th International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD 2023, 9 January 2023through 11 January 2023, Bengaluru, pp. 1189-1201.

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Abstract

Industry 4.0 depends on information systems and technology that must continuously adapt to rapidly changing business needs. It is therefore critical that the delivery of new technology can support frequent changes in business processes, customer needs, and new regulations. This dynamic environment drives supply chain strategies from procurement to production, inventory, and sales that in turn drive the pervasive need for faster digitalization and deployment of automation. With the technology heterogeneity and concomitant complexities resulting from decades of IT development, it has become essential that we create Agile software engineering methods to not only reduce cycle time and improve efficiency, but also build in robust controls for regulatory requirements, cybersecurity, data governance, safety, and reliability. The wide variety of systems and infrastructure in use at most companies today make predicting the impact of change challenging. We present here an analysis of a large body of IT projects across a variety of industries. Our model shows that early-stage quality metrics are highly predictive of later success. By efficiently incorporating a heuristically tailored SDLC, and related quality steps and measures, the gap between poor and excellent performance in IT delivery can be substantially closed. The data also supports implementation of a �closed-loop� IT delivery model that largely eliminates defects that can accrue during the programming and testing stages of large systems development projects. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publication:	Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Keywords:	Software testing, Agile development; Agile software engineering; Business needs; Business Process; Closed-loop; Customer need; Dynamic environments; Information systems and technologies; Production inventories; Supply chain strategy, Supply chains
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Department of Design & Manufacturing (formerly Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing)
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2024 17:59
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2024 17:59
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/86575

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