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Growing into Agility: Process Implementation Paths for Scrum

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Book cover Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 7343))

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Background: Many organizations struggle with the implementation of agile methods. Such methods pose considerable challenges related to organizational demand and process configuration. Goal: In this paper, we analyze the introduction of Scrum in the development organization in order to determine distinct approaches to its implementation. Approach: We compare the Scrum introduction paths of four case companies. Results: This results in a discussion of implementation paths ranging from gradual to disruptive introduction of Scrum. Contribution: The description of these paths provides insight into process improvements. We demonstrate how a structured description of process improvements can improve understanding of process improvement paths.

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  1. Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.007, 3508 TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Kevin Vlaanderen, Peter van Stijn & Sjaak Brinkkemper

  2. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Inge van de Weerd

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Oscar Dieste

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Fh IESE), Fraunhofer Platz 1, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Jedlitschka

  3. Facultad de Informática,, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, España

    Natalia Juristo

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Vlaanderen, K., van Stijn, P., Brinkkemper, S., van de Weerd, I. (2012). Growing into Agility: Process Implementation Paths for Scrum. In: Dieste, O., Jedlitschka, A., Juristo, N. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7343. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31063-8_10

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