Software developer perceptions about software project failure: a case study
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on software engineering education and training for the next millennium
Agile Software Development with Scrum
Agile Software Development with Scrum
Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Agile Project Management With Scrum
Agile Project Management With Scrum
What do software practitioners really think about project success: an exploratory study
Journal of Systems and Software
A survey study of critical success factors in agile software projects
Journal of Systems and Software
Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
Identifying some important success factors in adopting agile software development practices
Journal of Systems and Software
Designing motivation strategies for software engineering teams: an empirical study
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
ICWE'13 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Engineering
Experiences by using AFFINE for building collaborative applications for online communities
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
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In this article, factors considered critical for the success of projects managed using Scrum are correlated to the results of software projects in industry. Using a set of 25 factors compiled in by other researchers, a cross section survey was conducted to evaluate the presence or application of these factors in 11 software projects that used Scrum in 9 different software companies located in Recife-PE, Brazil. The questionnaire was applied to 65 developers and Scrum Masters, representing 75% (65/86) of the professionals that have participated in the projects. The result was correlated with the level of success achieved by the projects, measured by the subjective perception of the project participant, using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. The main finding is that only 32% (8/25) of the factors correlated positively with project success, raising the question of whether the factors hypothesized in the literature as being critical to the success of agile software projects indeed have an effect on project success. Given the limitations regarding the generalization of this result, other forms of empirical results, in particular case-studies, are needed to test this question.