NDLI: Subcontracting for Scrum Teams: Experiences and Guidelines from a Large Development Organization

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Penttinen, M. Mikkonen, T.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Agile methods and Scrum especially have drawn the attention of large software industry. Whilst originally accepted as a way of working for small companies and teams, more and more of the large organizations have adopted the Scrum method as their primary vehicle for delivering value to their customers. This transformation is not always without difficulties, however. One particular issue is that large organizations seldom develop software on their own but rather typically use massive amounts of subcontractors and their subcontractors to meet the sky-rocketing demand for new software. Only few experiences have been reported on how agile teams in a large organization succeed when they are networked with hundreds of different subcontractors distributed in global development space. This paper reports experiences based on 5 years of practicing Scrum together with subcontractors. Results reveal that often the agile team's performance is significantly hurt by having non-agile subcontractors participating to the development and that frameworks used for defining contracting structures are far behind from today's needs, leading to many problems in practice.
Starting Page	195
Ending Page	199
File Size	7416801
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467323574
e-ISBN	9780769547879
DOI	10.1109/ICGSE.2012.16
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-08-27
Publisher Place	Brazil
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Conferences Software engineering Scrum subcontracting agile development
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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