Mobile Scrum

Lightning Presentation about a mobile Scrum application at ME13: www1.in.tum.de/me13
Authors: Tobias Konsek & Stephan Krusche

Transcript

1. Mobile Scrum
   Tobias Konsek & Stephan Krusche
   Chair for Applied Software Engineering
   Technische Universität München
   February 26, 2013
   

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2. Mobile Scrum
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   Stephan Krusche
   Scrum
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3. Mobile Scrum
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   Motivation (1/2)
   Typical mistakes when applying Scrum: [Kni08] & [Sut93]
   • Missing information about team velocity
   • Missing information in daily scrums
   • Daily scrums take too long
   Goal: Tackle these problems with a mobile CASE tool
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4. Mobile Scrum
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   Stephan Krusche
   Motivation (2/2)
   Technology enabler Mobile Devices
   • Increasingly popular [Mob12]
   • Sufficient power for more complex tasks
   • Anytime and anywhere
   • Ubiquitous computing: The goal is to create ”machines that fit the
   human environment instead of forcing humans to enter theirs.”
   [Wei99]
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5. Mobile Scrum
   Tobias Konsek
   Stephan Krusche
   Research questions
   I. Can we improve the Scrum process with a
   mobile CASE tool?
   II. Do agile practitioners accept a mobile
   application to support their process?
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6. Mobile Scrum
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   Stephan Krusche
   Solution
   Native iOS application – Mobile Scrum
   Challenges
   • Limited space compared to desktop computers
   • Important to meet user expectations
   • Focus on usability
   Scenarios
   • Mobile minute taking
   • Daily scrum support
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7. Mobile Scrum
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   Scenario: Daily scrum
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8. Mobile Scrum
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   Future work
   • Case study (-> Research questions)
   • Mobile Scrum for distributed teams
   • Jira plugin
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9. Mobile Scrum
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   Stephan Krusche
   Questions
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   Try on iPad
   

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10. Mobile Scrum
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    Reference list
    • [Wei99] Mark Weiser. The computer for the 21st century. Sigmobile
    Mob. Comput. Commun. 1999
    • [Kni08] H. Kniberg. 10 ways to screw up with Scrum and XP. 2008
    • [Mob12] MobiThinking. Global mobile statistics - Part A: Mobile
    subscribers; handset market share; mobile operators, 2012.
    http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-
    stats/a.
    • [Sut93] J. Sutherland. 7 Ways to Fail with Scrum! 2007.
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