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Business Process Management Journal
ISSN : 1463-7154
Article publication date: 14 January 2021
Issue publication date: 17 May 2021
Numerous approaches from the field of economics already exist for the improvement of business processes. In the field of software development, work has been done on improving development processes. For years, the focus here has been on agile approaches. Although various approaches for improving business processes exist, it is becoming increasingly difficult to adapt business processes to the fast-moving conditions of the market and the business environment. Agile approaches address this issue. Thus, not only software development processes, but also business processes should benefit from agile approaches.
Design/methodology/approach
To this end, values and principles of the Agile Manifesto, agile methods such as Scrum, and various agile practices such as the Kanban board should be applied in business processes. This paper examines the work already done on this topic. With the help of a systematic literature review (SLR), literature studies dealing with the implementation of the agile approach in business processes are identified.
This paper presents, investigates and contrasts 12 primary sources dealing with agile and business processes and shows how they are different/ equal regarding three research questions.
Originality/value
We provide an overview of existing approaches handling the combination of agile and business processes to improve business processes.
- Business processes
- Business process improvement
- Agile practices
- Agile methods
- Systematic literature review
Schmitt, A. and Hörner, S. (2021), "Systematic literature review – improving business processes by implementing agile", Business Process Management Journal , Vol. 27 No. 3, pp. 868-882. https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-10-2019-0422
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To this end, values and principles of the Agile Manifesto, agile methods such as Scrum, and various agile practices such as the Kanban board should be applied in business processes. This paper examines the work already done on this topic. With the help of a systematic literature review (SLR), literature studies dealing with the implementation ...