Abstract
Despite the wide adoption of agile methodologies, software development teams still struggle to meet time, budget and scope, partially due to practitioners’ lack of motivation to apply agile techniques in practice. In this paper, we present a software tool based on gamification to make Scrum techniques more fun and engaging for practitioners. This paper presents results of the first iteration of a larger research effort that follows the Design Science Research methodology, where a prototype was developed as a Jira Software app and evaluated with a Scrum team in practice. Results suggest that the team’s Scrum practices slightly improved after using the app. Quantitative analysis and a set of interviews with the team members allowed to understand that the proposal should be more challenging and the score system more customized. Hereafter the app will be improved based on received feedback.
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Using Gamification for Adopting Scrum
Despite the wide adoption of agile methodologies, software development teams still struggle to meet time, budget and scope, partially due to practitioners’ lack of motivation to apply agile techniques in practice. In this paper, we present a software tool based on gamification to make Scrum techniques more fun and engaging for practitioners. This paper presents results of the first iteration of a larger research effort that follows the Design Science Research methodology, where a prototype was developed as a Jira Software app and evaluated with a Scrum team in practice. Results suggest that the team’s Scrum practices slightly improved after using the app. Quantitative analysis and a set of interviews with the team members allowed to understand that the proposal should be more challenging and the score system more customized. Hereafter the app will be improved based on received feedback.
Recommended Citation
Marques, R., Costa, G., Mira Da Silva, M., Gonçalves, D., & Gonçalves, P. (2018). Using Gamification for Adopting Scrum. In B. Andersson, B. Johansson, S. Carlsson, C. Barry, M. Lang, H. Linger, & C. Schneider (Eds.), Designing Digitalization (ISD2018 Proceedings). Lund, Sweden: Lund University. ISBN: 978-91-7753-876-9. http://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2018/ISDevelopment/16.