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Agile Methodology and the Strategy-as-Practice Approach in Management of Russian IT Companies

Student: Kalmykov Oleg

Supervisor: Elena Serova

Faculty: St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management

Educational Programme: Management (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

During last two decades group of scholars developed the Strategy-as-Practice approach to research of strategic planning process, which analyses it on micro-level. It involves aspects of strategic planning, providing analysis of practitioners, practice and praxis of strategy. Another concept described in article is agile-methodology. Albeit since these concepts appeared a lot of managerial issues in them were analyzed, their intersection was never discovered. This mixed-method research is aimed to cover such gap through qualitative, quantitative and model-building approaches. Firstly, with usage of grounded theory methods, there were conducted in-depth interviews with 8 experts in agile methodology, business processes and strategic planning. Then, with received insights hypothesizes were developed, which in a consequence were implemented in case study on Russian IT company Raidix. There informal observation was conducted, and 7 managers were interviewed. With results of it, model of strategic planning was developed. In last part of research, some ideas from interviews and case study were tested and further ways of research development were stated. Thus, results of research itself become applicable and useful not only for scholars, but for practitioners too.

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