Introducing Scrum in a Very Small Enterprise: A Productivity and Quality Analysis

Caballero, Edgar; Calvo-Manzano, José A.; Feliú, Tomás San

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“…Additionally, a number of in-vivo studies have been made on diverse aspects of the software process in small organizations such as requirements engineering problems and practice (Khankaew and Riddle 2014), the benefits of using Scrum (Caballero et al 2011), software inspection (Misra et al 2014), the practices of self-organizing Agile teams (Hoda et al 2012), knowledge management in small teams (O'Connor and Basri 2012), factors that motivate software engineering teams (Verner et al 2014), factors that may influence the adoption of best practice (Cater-Steel 2000), program of process improvement software (Schoeffel and Benitti 2012) and the influence of SPI on business success in software SMEs (Clarke and O'Connor 2012b). These studies use live observation or surveys as their research methodology, so that the findings are based on actual process but they do not address the entire software process.…”

Section: Software Process In Small Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the gap between software process practices and actual practice in very small companies

Sánchez‐Gordón

O’Connor

2015

Software Qual J

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This paper reports on a grounded theory to study into software developers' use of software development process in actual practice in the specific context of very small companies. This study was conducted in three very small software product companies located in Ecuador. The data collection was based on semi-structured qualitative interviews with software project managers, focus group with software developers and was supplemented by literature and documents studies. We interviewed two types of participants (managers and developers), so as to ensure that we elicited a holistic perspective of how they approached the software development process in actual practice. The goal was to study what practices are actually used and their opinion and attitude towards the potential adopting of an international standard (ISO/IEC 29110) specifically designed for very small companies. With the collected data we performed an analysis utilizing Grounded Theory coding techniques, as this methodology promotes the focus on uncovering the real concerns of the participants. This study highlighted three areas of concern: customer, software product and development tasks coordination and tracking. The findings in this study give an insight towards the work products as they relate to software development process practices in very small companies and the important factors that must be considered to assist project success.

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Section: Software Process In Small Organizationsmentioning

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Understanding the gap between software process practices and actual practice in very small companies

Sánchez‐Gordón

O’Connor

2015

Software Qual J

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“…Caballero et al [21] provide a case study to introduce Scrum in a very small enterprise. The objective is to analyze productivity and quality of Scrum model with a similar experience of Team Software Process (TSP).…”

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“…There are several attempts to analyze the integration of XP and Scrum from last few years [21][22][23][24][25] [27], the Scrum process is not assessed fully in the previous literature though there is an enormous acceptance of Scrum in the software industry. It is argued that less than 5% of the previous studies provide effective evidence that agile software development addresses Scrum.…”

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“…It is argued that less than 5% of the previous studies provide effective evidence that agile software development addresses Scrum. There is very little attention paid about the integration of XP and Scrum and limited empirical evidences are provided in the literature [21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. Therefore, it is highly required to integrate XP and Scrum in industrial settings to address this issue.…”

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Evaluating the Quality of Proposed Agile XScrum Model

Qureshi¹

2017

IJMECS

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Abstract-The software companies are practicing XP and Scrum models from last several years. XP lacks in management practices whereas Scrum is weak in engineering practices. Due to continually promising need of agile development, this research tackles the problems of XP and Scrum by integrating them to enrich the strengths of XP and Scrum and suppress their limitations. The previous attempts provide little effective empirical evidence regarding the integration of XP and Scrum. Therefore, there is a pressing need to provide empirical evidence for the integration of XP and Scrum to show its usefulness developing the software projects. The same is accomplished by proposing XScrum model. Another goal of this paper is to analyze the quality of proposed XScrum with existing XP and Scrum. The proposed XScrum is validated by performing three case studies for three industrial projects and the results are described in the paper. The results are presented using quantitative and qualitative data. The results provide empirical evidence that there is a significant improvement in quality of proposed XScrum as compared to the existing XP and Scrum.

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“…In addition, the Scrum ceremonies were identified as being very helpful. Caballero, Calvo-manzano, and Feliu (2011) studied how an organisation attempted to improve project productivity by introducing Scrum to assess the impact on efficiency and product quality standards. Their finding is that that Scrum can improve productivity without compromising quality in a very small enterprise.…”

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Software quality assurance in Scrum: The need for concrete guidance on SQA strategies in meeting user expectations

Khalane

Tanner

2013

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology

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Introducing Scrum in a Very Small Enterprise: A Productivity and Quality Analysis

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Understanding the gap between software process practices and actual practice in very small companies

Understanding the gap between software process practices and actual practice in very small companies

Evaluating the Quality of Proposed Agile XScrum Model

Software quality assurance in Scrum: The need for concrete guidance on SQA strategies in meeting user expectations

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