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SummaryScrum is a proven and effective software development practice that can rapidly increase the productivity,delivery speed and quality of software teams.What IT organization would not benefit from these attributes commonly experienced by successful Scrumimplementations?Decreased development cycle timesHigher value throughput to end usersHigher qualityLower development riskGreater user satisfactionImproved company moraleWhile appearing simple on the surface, implementing Scrum often requires substantial organizational changeto eliminate the impediments to effective development and delivery. As lead change agent, the CIO or otherexecutive sponsor has the primary responsibility for eliminating these impediments. It is the enduringcommitment by the CIO that may well be the difference between success and failure of the implementation.While none of this is easy, the CIO who commits to improving software outcomes with Scrum will take thefirst step in ensuring that the enterprise is well on its way to achieving the business benefits of faster andbetter quality software delivery.In addition, Scrum is highly effective in large-scale enterprise application development and can support theneeds of many hundreds of developers working on shared applications. Scaling Scrum presents anadditional set of challenges to infrastructure and tooling that the teams themselves will address – butovercoming these challenges will likely deliver a substantial advantage to these larger organizations overtheir marketplace rivals.© 2005 Rally Software Development Corp., Ken Schwaber and ScrumAlliance 22
BibliographyAgile Manifesto: www.agilealliance.orgBeck, Kent. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition). Boston: Addison-Wesley,2004.Schwaber. Ken. Agile Project Management with Scrum. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 2004.Schwaber, Ken, and Mike Beedle. Agile Software Development with Scrum. Upper Saddle River, N.J.:Prentice Hall, 2002.© 2005 Rally Software Development Corp., Ken Schwaber and ScrumAlliance 23
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