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Vincent BlijlevenMethod Engineering 2011-2012

April 13th, 2012

Outline

Introduction

Related literature

Process-Deliverable Diagram

Illustration

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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)

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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)

Questions?