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Exploring the Individual Project Progress of Scrum Software Developers

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Scrum based software development has become increasingly popular in recent years. Scrum requires teams following agile practices and their principles. One of them includes having room for the reflection of the team on how to become more effective. In this context, measuring and enhancing the performance of teams is still an area of interest for the Scrum community. Traditional Scrum metrics have often been used to measure the performance and productivity; however, individual contributions of team members to the project are often shaded by the team overall performance. In this paper, we propose a metric for measuring individual differences in project progress based on the traditional Burndown chart. We also show preliminary results of applying it in a particular training context, highlighting how learning-styles based instruction can improve the individual project progress of students.

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This research was supported by the institutional research grant IUT20-55 of the Estonian Research Council.

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  1. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Ezequiel Scott & Dietmar Pfahl

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  1. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Michael Felderer

  2. Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany

    Daniel Méndez Fernández

  3. Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

    Burak Turhan

  4. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Marcos Kalinowski

  5. University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Federica Sarro

  6. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Dietmar Winkler

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Scott, E., Pfahl, D. (2017). Exploring the Individual Project Progress of Scrum Software Developers. In: Felderer, M., Méndez Fernández, D., Turhan, B., Kalinowski, M., Sarro, F., Winkler, D. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4_24

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