{"title":"Why Scrum Works: A Case Study from an Agile Distributed Project in Denmark and India","authors":"Lene Pries-Heje, J. Pries-Heje","doi":"10.1109/AGILE.2011.34","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Scrum seems to work extremely well as an agile project management approach. An obvious question is why. To answer that question, we carried out a longitudinal case study of a distributed project using Scrum across Denmark and India. In our analysis of case study data we used three selected theoretical frameworks. We conclude that Scrum works so well because it provides communication, social integration, control, and coordination mechanisms that are especially useful for distributed and agile project management.","PeriodicalId":133654,"journal":{"name":"2011 AGILE Conference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"63","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 AGILE Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGILE.2011.34","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Scrum seems to work extremely well as an agile project management approach. An obvious question is why. To answer that question, we carried out a longitudinal case study of a distributed project using Scrum across Denmark and India. In our analysis of case study data we used three selected theoretical frameworks. We conclude that Scrum works so well because it provides communication, social integration, control, and coordination mechanisms that are especially useful for distributed and agile project management.