Introduction of Scrum in An Elite Team: A Case Study

Journal of Software, 2012

Agile software development methods and techniques have been demonstrated to improve employee morale, enhance end-product quality, and achieve customer satisfaction. Agile adoption always comes with special challenges and thus fundamental organizational changes are necessary for successful outcome. In this paper we present an in-depth case study for adopting Scrum in a multi-team and multi-project situation to a government entity in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E). While there are many successful stories for adopting Scrum in large and small organizations, there is little known about adoption stories in a multi-project/multi-team environments. In this paper we present a case study for an unsuccessful adoption of Scrum in a government entity in the U.A.E. The government entity under study have used the traditional waterfall approach for many years and decided to move to Agile software development method. This study highlights the challenges faced during the adoption of Scrum method with recommendations to address them. Each organization has its unique properties and one case study is not enough to draw conclusions for the U.A.E environment. However, the results obtained from this paper help software engineers to better understand the development environment and context factors for software projects in the U.A.E and many lessons may be learned for future Agile adoption.

IJCSMC, 2022

Scrum is one of the most popular and widely practiced agile software development methodologies. Scrum team consists of a Scrum Master, Product Owner, and developers. While using Scrum, several factors have been reported in the existing studies to improve or lower the performance of a Scrum team such as managing the priority of the product backlog items, role of an efficient product owner, cost and time to perform integration tests, accurate estimation of story points and code quality. This paper aims to determine critical factors those impact the most over the performance of the Scrum teams using a survey and systematic literature review. Furtherly, a model is proposed presenting the impact of critical factors to enhance the performance of Scrum teams to increase efficiency and work perfection, organizing and managing product backlogs, clarity in goals, execution of sprints in an estimated duration and increase productivity of product owner. The identified critical factors are validated using a survey and the results are found encouraging.

This paper deals with the Scrum methodology as an alternative to pedagogical practices and managing of the software projects, presenting an investigation with the students of scientific initiation of an university from the Brazil's northeast. It was seeking to analyze the accomplishment of the students with the Scrum practices, as well the percepetion of the learning of the methodology, showing the positive aspects and the negative ones through this experience. As a conclusion, the Scrum methodology is indicated to manage projects even when the team has limited or none experience promoting the learning, adding value and satisfaction to the student.

The agile methods, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP), have been a topic of much discussion in the software community over the last few years. While these have gained importance in the industry because of their approach on the issues of human agility and return on investment, usually within a context of small-tomedium size projects with significant requirements volatility, the ones who do not support these methods have expressed serious concerns about the effectiveness of the methods. Scrum attempts to build the work in short iterations where each iteration consists of short time boxes. This paper reviews several papers on Scrum, its framework including its artifacts and the ceremonies which are involved. This paper gives an insight of the Scrum Methodology to any beginner. Keywords: Agile methods, methodology, Scrum, software process, Sprint, Backlog, Artifacts

IJRET, 2013

Developing flexible, robust and scalable application is the purpose. Current IT industry is growing in the fast pace and have to survive in the competitive world by providing quality and time to market software. In order to sustain in the competitive world, requirement changes very frequently Agile methodologies today provide mechanism to handle growing expectations of customers with sufficient nimbleness to respond to changing market needs. Software development companies with its focus on innovation and value-centricity has adopted and matured its software development and maintenance methodology around agile development techniques, namely, Extreme Programming, Feature driven development and SCRUM. The purpose of this paper is to briefly introduce best suitable agile process like Scrum and Extreme Programming for different kinds of projects depending the attributes

Scrum method is an agile management method approach toward software development as it progresses incrementally and repetitively. The scrum method involves constant evaluation and revaluation of the progression of the project, to insure it is completed on time, while meeting the specific needs as directed by the product owner. Scrum unique to other agile methods in that it provides an empirical chart to track a product's progression through all stages of its development. This paper includes methods in agile testing, Traditional methods in project management. After this Why to use Scrum and Scrum Framework discussed in detail. Brief description of Tools and Techniques of Scrum is given and last advantages and disadvantages of Scrum are explained. Suvarna Shinde | Pratibha Adkar"A modern review on scrum: Advance project management method" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-4 , June 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd12864.pdf

Springer Nature, 2020

Scrum provides many benefits to organizations requiring a project management framework for complex adaptive problems. Some of these benefits include improved teamwork, improved time to market, and a noticeable decrease in software defects. The primary objective of this paper is to test nineteen research hypotheses that require a quantitative analysis of the Scrum framework. In order to test these hypotheses, the findings of a survey questionnaire was used to gather response data from Scrum practitioners on their perceptions of factors affecting Scrum adoption. Exploratory factor analysis and Cronbach’s alpha analysis confirmed the validity and reliability of the measuring instrument. Following these analyses, a correlation matrix was used to test the relationship strength among the different factors. The Spearman correlation analysis revealed statistically significant correlations. Multiple linear regression statistical models were developed to examine the existence of factors and constructs impacting Scrum adoption. Our findings indicate that four of the nineteen hypotheses are statistically significant. The factors Change Resistance, Sprint Management, Relative Advantage, and Complexity are shown to have a significant linear relationship to Scrum as perceived by Scrum Practitioners working within South African organizations. Future research could incorporate a larger population sample to improve the generalizability of the findings.

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2015

To maximize the performance, companies conduct a variety of ways to increase the business profit. The work management between one company and the other company is different, so the differences in the management may cause the software to have a different business process. Software development can be defined as creating a new software or fixing the existing one. Technology developments led to increasing demand for software, Industrial Technology (IT) Companies should be able to project well maintenance. The methodology in software development is used in accordance with the company's needs based on the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). Scrum method is a part of the Agile method that is expected to increase the speed and flexibility in software development project management.

proceedings.informingscience.org

Many organizations today are adopting Scrum, an Agile methodology for handling complex software project. Despite all the benefits, there are still issues and challenges in adapting to Agile and some refusals to move from traditional method. This research aims to assess the perception of effectiveness of implementation of Scrum and identify the challenges after adopting Scrum in an information technology (IT) department of company X, a multinational manufacturing company in Malaysia. The findings of this study revealed that after one year of adopting Scrum, the perceptions from the staff is there is no significant improvement made. Five challenges were identified: team members unaware of each other's tasks, difficulty in handling daily task priorities, no work synchronization among management and delivery team, too many tasks at the middle of sprints and poor attendance during daily stand up meeting. An enhanced Scrum framework that uses Scrum and Kanban is proposed to address the identified challenges. The insights gained from this research hope to provide practitioners with useful reference for adopting scrum.