Rajat Chadha CS 4960 November 20, 2014 Professor Sarraille Scrum Methodology Abstract: Scrum Methodology has been the chosen development framework for the past decade. Created in 2001, Scrum has taken over as the development framework of choice by business and companies [7]. Scrums counterpart, the Waterfall Methodology has taken a back seat to Scrum. The traditional developmental framework used by companies and businesses previously was The Waterfall Methodology. When Scrum got developed it created a better understanding of how to develop projects in iterations rather than a linear waterfall style. Scrum is a developmental framework that is done in iterations and can be implemented on many different projects. This paper will go more into depth about the Scrum Methodology, The Three Artifacts, The Three Roles, Scrum Ceremonies, and The Waterfall Methodology. 1. Introduction/Background Scrum is a simple framework used to organize teams and get work done more productively with higher quality [7]. Scrum provides a productive working environment in which it allows teams to choose the amount of work to be done and how to best complete the work. The application of Scrum enforces a few simple rules that have the potential to make a team self-organized into process that can achieve 5 to 10 times the productivity of a waterfall based process [5]. Scrum focuses on prioritizing work based on business value, improving the usefulness of what is delivered, increasing revenue,
Cost and resource needs are higher for traditional than Agile due to Waterfall’s sequential development phase of all requirements determined in the beginning, software design and finally implementation of master design. The need for all information up front takes substantial time to gather and the sequential design does not allow for project changes as the flow enters into the programming stage. With Agile, costs remain low because there exists an incremental and iterative approach to the project, meaning less time is used to collect all requirements up front, the
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The Agile Methodology Principles makes the development much faster because the primary importance is given to the customer satisfaction and continuously delivers product. Even though requirements change at the ending phase the product is developed. The Agile development insist the self-organizing team which can create requirements, best architectures, best models. The Agile development promotes a distinct way of thinking to build things and methods to deliver continuous improvement of product. It facilitates to make best practices and decisions together. It a development to promote the adaptive planning, continuous improvement, evolutionary development and delivery, and required time to complete work. It encourages for rapid response to change in the whole development cycle. The project team prefers agile development to move in a creative and quick way. The project progress also depends on working software and project environment and support is provided and built by the individuals. They promote the sustainable environment. Constant attention is provided to the technical excellence and best models are given by the agile methodology. This principle helps the project team members
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Implemented and managed scrum process; by product backlog grooming, prioritization, identify LOE, sprint planning, facilitate stand up, retrospective, participate in scrum of scrum with 3 business units (global payments, fraud and tax for ecommerce platform) and
The case is basically a tale of two sprints. During the first sprint, Scrum guidelines were adhered to and significant progress was made on the project. The team has evolved into self organizing group and is energized. Unfortunately during the second sprint, the project deviated from Scrum guidelines and the team seems less energized and productivity has declined.
Many business use the agile organizational methodology. As they require the ability to remain flexible, enduring ever-changing requirements. The agile organization develops more mission-critical, high-profile systems. Sharing responsibility within small teams (of 15 or less) is also a main principle of an agile organization. Never is a hierarchy design operational in the agile organization, as the group possess the ability to over ride decisions made by management. The agile type of organization displayed itself over time as an entrepreneurial type of organization providing the high-speed changing rather than the standardization of a bureaucratic organization (Johnson, Jackson, & Burrows, 2011).
This paper describes Agile development methodologies and their benefits. Section II presents key elements of Agile. Section III presents benefits of Agile development methodologies over traditional waterfall methodologies.
In Scrum, the collaboration between project work team is an important point for a successful project. Product Owner and Scrum Team have to collaborate together to get the most value for the business project. Scrum Master has an important role to create the best collaboration thru the project work. Because the Scrum Master connects between the product owner and the scrum team to ensure that the project is successfully done. However, Ken Schwaber in his book “Agile project management with Scrum” gives four case studies to explain the different kinds of collaboration between Product Owner and Scrum Team. For example, MegaBank is one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. It used Scrum to work on the second release
SC will compare traditional and various iterative implementations of the SDLC. For example, Braude and Bernstein (2011) state that the popular and mature waterfall process model promotes simple comprehension, project management, and resource distribution of small project development lifecycles. The serial nature of the traditional SDLC leans toward the gathering of all requirements at the beginning of the project whereas the majority of testing occurs at the end of the lifecycle. The waterfall model’s linear design creates disastrous risks for large projects if the project team does not understand the core requirements during the initial phase of the project or the detection of major problems occurs toward the end of the project. On the other hand, a spiral model significantly reduces risks for large projects whereas complexity causes overkill for smaller projects. The project’s physical scope, timeline, budget, and resource determine which the most optimal process model for a project. Table 1.1 displays a comparison chart that SC uses to weigh advantages and disadvantages of traditional SDLC and Agile development methodologies. SC will utilize this chart to determine which development methodology is utilized based on the primary amount of questions answered positively weighed with the clients business case requirements. “Agile software development is a
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Scrum (link to the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)) is a project management methodology. It is mostly used in I.T. and Software Development. Scrum is an iterative and incremental variant of Agile (link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development) Software Development Methodology that was created by Ken Schwaber (Link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Schwaber) and Jeff Sutherland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sutherland) in the 90's. S
In this method, the team member is responsible for completing work and team determine how it can be completed smoothly(Scrum).
While the waterfall model has its flaws, it is important that an organization follows a model. With strict deadlines, tight budgets, and changing targets, a uniform process is required to meet the business needs. Ad hoc process cannot account for all the business constraints and timelines. The waterfall model provides a framework and clear track for software development. It is important to share best practices and evolve aspects of the waterfall method to meet today’s industry standards. Success can result from combining experience and knowledge, and best practices from the past and present and planning and adapting these for future expectations.
Scrum is framework for developing a new product mostly software product. In that case the team agreed to choose the agile scrum