\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 05731793} \itemau{Petersen, Kai} \itemti{An empirical study of lead-times in incremental and agile software development.} \itemso{M\"unch, J\"urgen (ed.) et al., New modeling concepts for today's software processes. International conference on software process, ICSP 2010, Paderborn, Germany, July 8--9, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-14346-5/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6195, 345-356 (2010).} \itemab Summary: Short lead-times are essential in order to have a first-move advantages and to be able to react on changes on a fast-paced market. Agile software development is a development paradigm that aims at being able to respond quickly to changes in customer needs. So far, to the best of our knowledge no empirical study has investigated lead-times with regard to different aspects (distribution between phases, difference of lead-time with regard to architecture dependencies, and size). However, in order to improve lead-times it is important to understand the behavior of lead-times. In this study the lead-times of a large-scale company employing incremental and agile practices are analyzed. The analysis focuses on 12 systems at Ericsson AB, Sweden. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{} \itemut{} \itemli{doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14347-2\_30} \end