The Scrum The Scrum Development Method Vincent Blijleven Method Engineering April 13 th, 2012

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Introduction ‘Scrum’ Introduced by Ken Schwaber & Jeff Sutherland (1995) Origins: Japanese manufacturing industry in the late 1980s by Takeuchi & Nonaka (1986) Purposes: Adaptability Efficiency Flexibility, control mechanisms Main phases: 1 Plan project 2 Design architecture 3 Develop release 4 Finalize release

Related Literature Origins in 1986 by Takeuchi and Nonaka Improved by Pittman (1993) & Booch (1995) to an iterative and incremental approach to delivering object-oriented software “Early” approaches to systems development: Waterfall (Royce, 1987) Spiral (Boehm, 1988) Iterative (Larman & Basili, 2003) “Modern” approaches to systems development: Scrum (Schwaber, 1995) FDD (Coad, Lefebvre, & De Luca, 1999) LSD (Poppendieck & Poppendieck, 2003) Crystal Clear (Cockburn, 2004) Extreme Programming (Beck & Andres, 2004) } } Development = Fixed & predictable Development = Variable & unpredictable

Related Literature Many case studies conducted to assess the effectiveness of Scrum in practice: Impact on overtime and customer satisfaction (Mann & Maurer, 2005) Scalability when applied in different environments (Sutherland, 2001) Effectiveness when implemented in small teams and its results (Rising & Janoff, 2000) Overview of strengths and weaknesses of Scrum compared to other agile development methods (Boehm, 2002)

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