Name
Real-life Water-Scrum-Fall: Insights from Large Companies in Czech Republic
Date & Time
Friday, June 16, 2023, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Daniel Remta
Description

[Background] Combination of traditional and agile methodologies into so-called “hybrid approaches” are today’s reality. The intention is to attempt maximization of benefits from both approaches. Water-Scrum-Fall is a method-ology for hybrid approaches. However, there are no specific guidelines described for Water-Scrum-Fall. [Aim] Explore and describe the real-life implementations of Water-Scrum-Fall in selected large companies in the Czech Market. [Method] Semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. Results. Insights into real-life Water-Scrum-Fall implementations including involved roles, associated events, and typically created artifacts. [Conclusion] Modified agile methodologies are used in Water-Scrum-Fall, while their benefits are not fully unlocked due to poor implementations. Hybrid approaches still require rigorous analysis before the de-velopment is started, which strongly limits the agility in the following develop-ment phase. Customer involvement or feedback loop is omitted in the develop-ment process. We accompany poor implementations with the unpreparedness of companies to fully adopt Agile and missing senior roles, like scrum masters, to educate teams and organizations in proper agile practices.

Location Name
Studio, 5th floor
Full Address
Pakhuis de Zwijger
Piet Heinkade 179
Amsterdam 1019 HC
Netherlands
Session Type
Research Paper
submissions_id
4342
Track Color
Yellow
Session Length
20
Keywords
Water-Scrum-Fall
Hybrid Methodologies
Agile
Learning Objectives
Process innovation
General Topic
Process