Organizational Culture and its Impact on the BizDev Interface

Currently, organizations are looking for evolving and adapting software engineering methodologies targeting a wider and healthier collaboration among its functional areas. In this context, the interface between business and development includes all the interactions between the IT and the business sectors within an organization. The term BizDev is used to represent this link between business strategy and software development [1], complementing how DevOps represents the link between development and operations. Understanding how the BizDev interface works in different methodologies and contexts is relevant to have an in-depth characterization and, then, improving towards the continuous flow and healthier collaboration between these areas.