Case Study on Critical Success Factors of Running Scrum

Jiangping Wan, Yahui Zhu, Ming Zeng

School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2013.62010                

Abstract

Agile development 12 principles, and adaptive project management life cycle model are applied to case study of J group, the critical success factors of running Scrum are identified as follows: 1) explicit the process of project management and a self-managing group with Scrum; 2) professional agile development and release capability; 3) building learning organization. J group as a pioneer Scrum agile software development practices, realizes the productivity of significant promotion and cost reduction, accelerates the product to the market, improves customer satisfaction and achieves a more transparent development process and higher predictive capability. The study aims to improve the success rate of the running Scrum.

Keywords

Agile Software Development; Scrum; Critical Success Factors; Case Study

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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