Agile and scrum
Scrum and other agile methodologies are now widely accepted in practice. In Scrum, the work is organized in user stories and the customer is responsible for their organization in a product backlog. At the end of each iteration, the progress is reviewed and priorities are re-evaluated. During the iteration, daily meetings take place to set direction and focus. The overall emphasis is on the incremental delivery of working functionality and the reduction of work-in-progress.
Despite a rich literature on the subject, more evidence-based research is needed to understand how agile works, and why it works, in practice.
Project descriptions
The 1st proposal was selected by Zuehlke
Research on Scrum Tools
- Scrum tools to improve project management
- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/itanalyst/docs/05-05-10AgileDevelopmentManagementTools.PDF
Resources
- Extreme Programming Explained
- Succeeding With Agile: Software Development Using Scrum
- User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
- The New New Product Development Game
- The Scrum Software Development Process for Small Teams
- Future of Scrum: Parallel Pipelining of Sprints in Complex Projects
- The Scrum Papers: Nuts, Bolts, and Origins of an Agile Process
- Improving Estimations in Agile Projects: Issues and Avenues
- The Scrum Primer
- Holger Koschek - Geschichten vom Scrum, Von Sprints, Retrospektiven und agilen Werten (as far as I know for now in german only)
- ERNI Experience article about Scrum
- Scurm and XP from the trenches
- Scrum Glossary
- http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/state-of-agile-blog-series
- Scrum @Liip ( part 1 part 2)
- Best Scrum Tool (stackoverflow question)
Human factors
- Human factors in software engineering: a review of the literature
- Human-computer interaction
- Introduction to Research Methods and Data Analysis in Psychology
- Participatory design
Other
- Scrum Cheat Sheet
- How Agile Are You Survey
- A Survey of Web-Based Software Project Portals
- http://www.findbestopensource.com/tagged/scrum
- http://blog.crisp.se/henrikkniberg
White board & moving tasks off the desktop
- Chris Parnin - secondary device, moving tasks to table -> Link to paper
- Craig Anslow - wall-size display in soft. eng.
- Felinne Hermann - research about excel sheets, very hard to improve on excel
- Rob Deline - wall-size display —> codemap
- UC Irvine - white board related research
- Calgary - jagoda, new research group
- Andre van der hoeck, http://calico.bhnet.us/, wall size display
Conferences:
chi, vhlcc, cscw, ese (www.eseconf.com)
Contacts
Zuehlke, Liip
Scrum:
- Bastian Widmer http://twitter.com/dasrecht
- Denniz Dönmez http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/26867
Sociology:
- Aurianne Stroude
- Authors: Crozier et Friedberg (needs)