Scrum to support mobile application development projects in a just-in-time learning context

  • Authors:
  • Christelle Scharff;Ravi Verma

  • Affiliations:
  • Pace University, New York City, NY;Pradevi LLC, North Brunswick, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Developing mobile applications is a challenging endeavor where technology and creativity are essential. Agile methodologies seem to be particularly adapted to the development of mobile applications; mobile applications have a limited scope and user interaction and time to market are particularly important. In this paper, we describe a study that evaluates the use of Scrum for software success in mobile application development. We defined an innovative model of working with Scrum in a class setting at Pace University involving a professional Scrum Master of the New York software industry and a real product owner. The mobile application that was developed targeted the growing mobile market in Africa. We explored the overall experience, adoption of Scrum and difficulties encountered by teams using Scrum for the first time. The paper reports on our findings and summarizes guidelines for instructors interested in replicating our work.