Why do Software Teams Deviate from Scrum? Reasons and Implications
Human, social, organizational, and technical aspects are intertwined with each other in software teams during the software development process. Practices that teams actually adopt often deviate from those of the used frameworks, such as Scrum. However, currently there is little empirical insight explaining typical deviations, including their reasons and consequences. In this paper we use observations to investigate selected activities of the software development process in two companies that use Scrum. We study identified deviations to understand their reasons and consequences, using a survey and interviews. We identify 13 deviations and we categorize reasons based on type. The deviations’ consequences are investigated in terms of their impact. Most deviations can be found in multiple teams. Reasons are doubts of the teams, organizational structures and complexity of the work. Consequences of deviations affect product development and team work.
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15:00 - 18:00 | Session 5ICGSE [Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE / ICGSE Research Papers / ICSSP / ICGSE Experience Reports at ICSSP-ICGSE Chair(s): Josiane Kroll University of Manitoba, Leon Osterweil _ ICGSE Theme: Tools for GSD ICSSP Theme: Applied Software Engineering Practices | ||
15:00 5mDay opening | OpeningRecorded ICGSE [Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE | ||
15:05 45mKeynote | Preventing Undesirable Behavior of Intelligent MachinesKeynote ICGSE [Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE Yuriy Brun University of Massachusetts Amherst Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||
15:50 15mExperience report | Challenges in scaling AI-powered distributed software product ICGSE Experience Reports Rajeev Kumar Gupta Siemens Healthineers India LLP, Balaji B Siemens Healthineers India LLP, Mekanathan Venkatachalapathy Siemens, Ferose Khan Jeberla Siemens | ||
16:05 15mExperience report | Developing a Release Management Tool to Support Global Software Development: An Experience Report on Android Platform ICGSE Experience Reports Hualter Oliveira Barbosa SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Witalo Albuquerque SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Alexandre Bandeira SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Luis Albuquerque SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Ueslei Pivoto SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Fernando Pires SIDIA Institute of Science and Technology, Bruno Bonifácio Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM | ||
16:20 15mResearch paper | GLOBAL-MANAGER: A Serious Game for providing training in Project Manager Skills ICGSE Research Papers Rubén Marquez University of Castilla-La Mancha, Aurora Vizcaíno Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Felix García University of Castilla-La Mancha, Antonio Manjavacas University of Castilla-La Mancha | ||
16:35 15mFull-paper | Why do Software Teams Deviate from Scrum? Reasons and Implications ICSSP Mohamad Mortada Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Hamdy Michael Ayas Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Regina Hebig University of Gothenburg | ||
16:50 15mFull-paper | EcoKnow: Engineering Effective, Co-created and Compliant Adaptive Case Management Systems for Knowledge Workers ICSSP Thomas T. Hildebrandt University of Copenhagen, Amine Abbad Andaloussi Technical University of Denmark, Lars Rune Christensen IT University of Copenhagen, Søren Debois IT University of Copenhagen, Nicklas Pape Healy Syddjurs Municipality, Hugo A. López IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark & DCR Solutions A/S, Morten Marquard DCR Solutions A/S, Naja Holten Møller University of Copenhagen, Anette C. M. Petersen IT University of Copenhagen, Tijs Slaats University of Copenhagen, Barbara Weber St. Gallen University | ||
17:05 10mDay closing | Closing ICGSE [Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE Paolo Tell IT University of Copenhagen, David Raffo Portland State University, Liguo Huang Dept. of Computer Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75205 | ||
17:15 10mAwards | Awards ceremony ICGSE [Joint Event] - ICSSP/ICGSE Igor Steinmacher Northern Arizona University, Ricardo Britto Ericsson / Blekinge Institute of Technology, Josiane Kroll University of Manitoba, Paul Clarke , Eray Tüzün Bilkent University | ||