Early Days of Scrum in an Enterprise

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Abstract-Software developing enterprises tend to go for new process models that help them in developing software products. This is because the change in the needs of customers and the developing enterprises are not constant. To meet this old and traditional process models are not applicable. When new process models are chosen they need to be adopted first into the enterprise. After the process model is adopted it is very important to control the process model in the enterprise. It is essential to know how the process model is integrated to the environment of the software developing enterprise. The behaviour of the process model in its early period after adoption is discussed in this work.Keyword -Agile, Scrum, Enterprise, Product development, Early Months. I. INTRODUCTION In software engineering software developing methodology is a framework that helps the developing enterprises to organize, plan, and regulate the course of developing a software product. Around 1960s for the first time these frameworks for software development appeared. In 2004 Geoffrey Elliott [7] described that these systems development life cycles for developing the products referred as SDLC. These are the eldest formal organized frameworks for developing information schemes. The key function this software development life cycle in the 1960s is to develop business oriented products in larger way.Enterprises to develop products or to manufacture products require process models to follow in doing the work because they help in smooth running of overall activities. Process models play an important role in the life cycle of a product. Without a process model it is difficult to get a successful product as it is considered as the path for carrying the work to be done. In software engineering to develop products process models are being used from the early days. Water fall model is considered as the base model for all new models in software industry. If a new process model is to be developed it has to follow the basic concepts of waterfall model. Fig.1 shows the phases of waterfall model which is sequential in approach. Every phase in waterfall model is processed one after the other in product development. Process models that exist in software engineering have it strengths and weaknesses and they are opted based on the environment of new product to be developed. They are measured based on the requirements of both the customer and developing organizations. Because of different requirements of customers and developers many process models has been developed to help in product development. In recent times a new group of methodologies has been developed that are acting as substitute to traditional and modern process models. These are agile methodologies that respond to changeability in product development. As other modern methods these agile methodologies are also iterative and incremental in nature [3]. These are suitable for developing business oriented products. Among the several agile methods the successfully and widely used methodologies are extreme ...