How to enable ambidexterity in safety-critical software development
How to enable ambidexterity in safety-critical software development
Overview: in a competitive environment, continually improving new products and services requires new knowledge and novel solutions. Managing projects also requires the careful control of resources for effective delivery. Ambidexterity, the simultaneous achievement of novelty through exploration and efficiency through exploitation, is challenging to achieve in practice. The ways in which companies can achieve ambidexterity are context dependent. It is especially hard to promote new and uncertain concepts in situations where lives are at stake. This article reports on a case study of a safety-critical IT development project that successfully achieved ambidexterity. Leadership behaviors that support ambidexterity in this setting are critical. We highlight four leadership behaviors key to developing an environment where creative solutions can flourish.
Agile, Ambidexterity, Project management, Safety critical, Software development
35-43
Turner, Neil
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Baxter, David
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28 February 2024
Turner, Neil
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Baxter, David
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Turner, Neil and Baxter, David
(2024)
How to enable ambidexterity in safety-critical software development.
Research-Technology Management, 67 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/08956308.2023.2293647).
Abstract
Overview: in a competitive environment, continually improving new products and services requires new knowledge and novel solutions. Managing projects also requires the careful control of resources for effective delivery. Ambidexterity, the simultaneous achievement of novelty through exploration and efficiency through exploitation, is challenging to achieve in practice. The ways in which companies can achieve ambidexterity are context dependent. It is especially hard to promote new and uncertain concepts in situations where lives are at stake. This article reports on a case study of a safety-critical IT development project that successfully achieved ambidexterity. Leadership behaviors that support ambidexterity in this setting are critical. We highlight four leadership behaviors key to developing an environment where creative solutions can flourish.
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Accepted/In Press date: 8 December 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 28 February 2024
Published date: 28 February 2024
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Keywords:
Agile, Ambidexterity, Project management, Safety critical, Software development
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Local EPrints ID: 487849
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/487849
ISSN: 0895-6308
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