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

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Mobile Scrum Tobias Konsek Stephan Krusche 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 3 

Mobile Scrum Tobias Konsek 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] 4 

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? 5 

Mobile Scrum Tobias Konsek 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 6 

Mobile Scrum Tobias Konsek Stephan Krusche Scenario: Daily scrum 7 

Mobile Scrum Tobias Konsek Stephan Krusche Future work • Case study (-> Research questions) • Mobile Scrum for distributed teams • Jira plugin 8 

Mobile Scrum Tobias Konsek Stephan Krusche Questions 9 Try on iPad 

Mobile Scrum Tobias Konsek Stephan Krusche 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. 10