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Scrum in the Traditional Development Organization: Adapting to the Legacy

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Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes

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During the last couple of years, the application of Scrum as a project management framework has been broadened from initially belonging to the software domain. Now companies within the field of traditional product development are starting to implement Scrum in an attempt to improve their development efforts with respect to resource efficiency and speed.

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Ovesen, N., Sommer, A.F. (2015). Scrum in the Traditional Development Organization: Adapting to the Legacy. In: Schabacker, M., Gericke, K., Szélig, N., Vajna, S. (eds) Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44009-4_8

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