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A Practical Approach to Project Management in a Very Small Company

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2012)

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This article shows how a very small company has tailored Scrum according to its own needs. The main additions made were the “sprint design” phase and the “sprint test” phase. Before the sprint 0, the requirements elicitation and the functional specification were made in order to meet deadlines and costs agreed with clients. Besides, the introduction of an agile project management tool has supported all the process and it is considered the main success factor for the institutionalization of the Scrum process.

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  1. Departamento Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería del Software, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, España

    Edgar Caballero & Jose A. Calvo-Manzano

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  1. Edgar Caballero
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  1. Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Karlsplatz 13, P.O. Box A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Dietmar Winkler

  2. Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  3. ISCN Ltd., Graz, Austria

    Richard Messnarz

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Caballero, E., Calvo-Manzano, J.A. (2012). A Practical Approach to Project Management in a Very Small Company. In: Winkler, D., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 301. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31199-4_28

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