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IT functionality in companies is often delivered by a chain of interdependent software applications. To handle changing business demands in such chains, organizations increasingly employ agile methods such as Scrum. Usually, each Scrum team deals with a single application in the chain, necessitating alignment activities between the Scrum teams that jointly deliver IT functionality. We empirically investigate the alignment issues that occur in such chains of Scrum teams, and identify several that impact time to market. We base our observations on qualitative data from two case study environments.
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Vlietland, J., van Vliet, H. (2014). Alignment Issues in Chains of Scrum Teams. In: Lassenius, C., Smolander, K. (eds) Software Business. Towards Continuous Value Delivery. ICSOB 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 182. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08738-2_22
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