The Perceived Impact of the Agile Development and Project Management Method Scrum on Team Leadership in Information Systems Development

The Perceived Impact of the Agile Development and Project Management Method Scrum on Process Transparency in Information Systems Development

“…In the remainder of the paper we first briefly introduce Scrum, and then we describe our theoretical background and the research setting and method. Subsequently we present and discuss our research results against the existing literature on Scrum and relate them to our earlier findings concerning the other concepts of our framework which were explained in more detail in [5][6][7] as well as to complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory, a theory which is considered to provide a theoretical foundation for ISD [8] and in particular agile development [9]. We finish with some conclusions and an outlook to future research.…”

“…The above analysis has provided examples of interacting interconnected autonomous agents, such as the involved developers and testers, their self-organization as individuals and as project teams, their co-evolution through knowledge sharing and learning from each other, as well as for time pacing in the short iterative development cycles, and for poise at the edge of time and chaos, for instance with regard to compliance to deadlines and uninterrupted workflow, which thus empirically and theoretically lend support to the identified perceived positive impact of Scrum on process transparency and as indicated productivity, quality, employee satisfaction [6] as well as team leadership [7] of ISD in our case setting.…”

“…Although a presentation of the overall result would give a more comprehensive portrait of the method's impact, we focus here on process transparency as one of the key concepts. This still provides some valuable insights which we will relate to the findings concerning the other concepts that we have presented and discussed in more detail elsewhere [5][6][7]. As a starting point for our discussion we summarize the results of our analysis of Scrum's impact on process transparency in the case unit:…”

“…If in doubt, the Scrum master is available to facilitate or solve the problem. This had to a large extent been achieved in the case unit [7].…”

“…Here we are focusing on Scrum's impact on the first concept. We have reported Scrum's impact on the other concepts elsewhere [5][6][7]. Process transparency refers to one of the areas that distinguish Scrum noticeably from the typical waterfall model development processes.…”