The effectiveness of using software development methods analysis by the project timeline in an Indonesian media company

The technological growth in Indonesia has stimulated the increase of technology demand. A lot of Indonesian media companies have transformed their business processes, from offline to online. The new business setting not only requires a set of revamped business processes through a business process reengineering but also a strong support from the information technology (IT) departments. The modernization and computerization of the new business processes require the company to have a lot of software projects that have such time and budget constraints. The company in this research has been experiencing a lot of unwanted overdue, both in their in-house and outsourced software projects. This paper studied the randomly picked 20 in-house software projects that adopting a certain software development methods such as software development life cycle (SDLC), Scrum, extreme programming (XP), and waterfall as well as the outsourced ones to see how effective they are to keep the software delivery on time.