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Developing Software with Scrum in a Small Cross-Organizational Project

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Software Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2006)

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In an action research study, we describe the application of the scrum software development process in a small cross-organizational development project. The stakeholders in the project report many of the benefits we have found in previous studies, such as increased overview of the project, flexibility and motivation. In addition, we have found that estimation can be challenging in cross-organizational projects due to the customer-provider relationship between the participating organizations.

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  1. SINTEF Information and Communication Technology, NO-7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Torgeir Dingsøyr, Geir Kjetil Hanssen & Tore Dybå

  2. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO-7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Torgeir Dingsøyr

  3. SINTEF Information and Communication Technology, N-0314, Oslo, Norway

    Geir Anker & Jens Olav Nygaard

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  1. Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland

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  2. Dept. of Communication Systems, Lund University, SE-221 00, LUND, Sweden

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  3. EuroSPI, c/o ISCN LTD, Bray, Co., Wicklow, Ireland

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Dingsøyr, T., Hanssen, G.K., Dybå, T., Anker, G., Nygaard, J.O. (2006). Developing Software with Scrum in a Small Cross-Organizational Project. In: Richardson, I., Runeson, P., Messnarz, R. (eds) Software Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908562_2

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