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ISAT 2019: Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 40th Anniversary International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2019 pp 232–243Cite as

Scrum Project Management Dynamics Simulation

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The paper presents dynamic aspects of software development project management. Particularly, a client influence or intervention risks, staff promotions, and their influences to software development project management with Agile/Scrum approaches and processes in terms of project performance dynamics and also economic results are considered. During the software development life cycle, the development team is expected to understand customer needs, but it is challenged by many constraints, e.g. narrow project schedule, customers’ interventions and changes, short budget, or staff promotions. For this analysis a simulation model of software project management with application of continuous simulation by System Dynamics (SD) approach is developed. The paper shows dynamics of software project management caused by project risks and disturbances, particularly client interference or intervention, and also draws some conclusions regarding client intervention risk management during software contractor project performance, based on simulation experiments. The paper constitutes an original proposal of PM archetype simulation model and a research of client intervention risk influence to software project management due to application of Agile/Scrum elements within classical PMI/PRINCE2 methods management environments.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 30-572, Wrocław, Poland

    Roman Pietroń

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  1. University of Applied Sciences in Nysa, Nysa, Poland

    Zofia Wilimowska

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Leszek Borzemski

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Jerzy Świątek

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Pietroń, R. (2020). Scrum Project Management Dynamics Simulation. In: Wilimowska, Z., Borzemski, L., Świątek, J. (eds) Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 40th Anniversary International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2019. ISAT 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1052. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30443-0_21

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