Scaling Scrum in a Large Distributed Project

This paper presents a currently ongoing single case study on adopting and scaling Scrum in a large software development project distributed across four sites. The data was gathered by 19 semi-structured interviews of project personnel, including managers, architects, developers and testers. At the t...

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