Research in CEE-Region: Changes Implementation in Software Production

D. S. Pashchenko, MBA, Consultant in Software Development, e-mail: denpas@rambler.ru, Moscow

Delphi method research have been done in middle of 2014, and 78 software engineers from 11 countries of CEE-region took part in it. In this article there are main results of this research, including: main problems and risks of change management, expert's experience in change implementation, aspect of production process model standardization in software business, engineer's emotional perception of changes. Expert's panel defined organizational resistance features in IT domain, need of timely changes implementation planning and consolidation, aspects of increasing the predictability impact of changes on software project's results. Also there are detailed recommendations to reduce the impact of the risk on the successful implementation of changes on all stages of internal project.

Keywords: production changes, software development, organizational resistance in software domain, changes consolidation, staff involvement in change management

pp. 39–48