Agile Scrum Research Articles

Аналіз та розроблення концептуальної моделі управління життєвим циклом спеціалізованого програмного забезпечення безпеко-орієнтованого спрямування

A comprehensive examination of the process of developing specialized safety-oriented software is conducted. The incongruity of the presently known development methodologies with the circumstances in which innovative safety-oriented software systems are created is unveiled. For this reason, the purpose of this article is to investigate the existing methods and formulate novel approaches to managing the life cycle of specialized software (safety-oriented services), which are relevant to the specific requirements of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine and align with the principles of a flexible software life cycle management methodology. A thorough exploration is conducted on the current agile methods and approaches employed in the development of critical services, specifically in sectors such as military, railway, aerospace, medical, and other domains of operation. The aim is to establish the merits of flexibility in fostering innovation within specialized safety-oriented software. The fundamental concepts of agile methods for software system life cycle management are synergistically integrated, taking into consideration the unique requirements of rescue service development. Furthermore, the existing empirical data on the feasibility and advantages of implementing agile methods in the security industry are expanded upon. Especially, the agile Scrum method is enhanced through the proposal of employing the mathematical framework of graph theory (network planning method) to automate the planning stage and identify critical functions, including the critical path, the early execution time of events, the late execution times of events, and reserved time for tasks. This method aids in developing a minimum viable product for a safety-oriented system. A conceptual model of the life cycle management process for safety-oriented services has been meticulously developed. This model is predicated on a flexible approach to software development, which aims to automate the tasks performed by project teams and enhance the overall efficacy of specialized software development. On its basis, it is proposed to develop a decision support system for managing the life cycle of safety-oriented software systems development, which is relevant for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

Developing of NLP models by model based software developement

In the case of software development, we can talk about several methodologies, such as the waterfall model, test-driven software development, agile software development, but the question rightly arises whether software development methods in the traditional sense are applicable to the development of natural language processing language models, especially from the aspect of AI and dictionary-based NLP models. Learning AI models is substantially different from the classical software development process. Whereas in classical software development, developers explicitly describe the operation and behavior to the computer, in AI model learning, the models themselves learn from the input data. This paper presents a possible solution that applies the agile Scrum methodology used in classical software development to the development of dictionary-based NLP models, and identify the agile development opportunities in case of the machine learning-based NLP models.

استخدام المنهجيات الحديثة لتطوير النظم في إدارة المعرفة والمعلوماتية الصحية

The importance of developing health care software emerged as a necessary process to transform the paper health care system into a computer-based information system to ensure the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health service provision, reduce medical errors and ensure patient safety. The importance of developing health care software also emerged due to the high degree of complexity of health care services, and the accuracy required to ensure that there are no errors. Healthcare software needs to comply with laws and regulations during its development, be more secure and stable than other software, and be high-performance without crashes. In reality, this is often not the common case, as you are going to release a poor-quality product and constantly improve it - you want your product to be trusted and used from day one. Agile software development is an iterative process that creates a usable software product from the early stages, enabling rapid, high-quality development that will respond quickly to changing requirements. The Waterfall model may be a good software development model in the case of large-scale software projects. However, there are many tradeoffs between the two software development approaches, Agile or Waterfall. This paper covers common software development methodologies and discusses the benefits and drawbacks of each of them, and how we can modify them according to the requirements of healthcare information systems. During this research, a hybrid software development methodology (Hybrid Scrum-Fall Model) was proposed to develop the health care system. The proposed model combines the agile Scrum development methodology with the Waterfall model to deliver quality software solutions that deliver greater value to the end user.

Optimizing Vaccine Access: A Web-Based Scheduling System with Geo-Tagging Integration and Decision Support for Local Health Centers

The system created aims to produce an online vaccination appointment scheduling system with geo-tagging integration and a decision-support mechanism for neighborhood health clinics. With a decision support mechanism that suggests the essential vaccines based on their account details, it is made to meet the unique vaccination needs of each patient. The system includes immunizations that are accessible locally, and patients and midwives can manage their own corresponding information through personal accounts. Viewers of websites can visualize the distribution of vaccines by purok thanks to geotagging. The Agile Scrum Methodology was modified by the researchers for early delivery, change flexibility, and continual system improvement in order to accomplish the study’s main goal. In order to assess the system’s acceptability in terms of functional adequacy, performance efficiency, compatibility, usability, reliability, security, maintainability, and portability, it was designed in accordance with the ISO 25010 Product Software Quality Standards. Following the assessment, the system was given an average total weighted mean score of 4.62, which represents a verbal interpretation of “strongly agree”. This score demonstrates that the evaluators were in agreement that the system met the requirements of ISO 25010 for Product Software Quality Standards.

A Literature Review on Agile Methodologies Quality, eXtreme Programming and SCRUM

Agile methodologies have become one of the most applied methods in the software development industry. However, agile methodologies face some challenges such as less documentation and wasting time considering changes. This review presents how the previous studies attempted to cover issues of agile methodologies and the modifications in the performance of agile methodologies. The paper also highlights unresolved issues to get the attention of developers, researchers, and software practitioners

App Per-Q Teponaztli: Innovation for rhythmic music education

The following article presents the Per-Q Teponaztli mobile application as an innovation proposal for music education. Per-Q Teponaztli is a complementary tool of Per-Q, a rhythmic musical training program for children between 7 and 12 years of age implemented in virtual learning environments and based on different rhythmic musical learning methodologies that promote the development of multi-functional skills. and intercultural. The design and implementation process of the application was carried out through the agile SCRUM methodology. Developed for the Android environment, Per-Q Teponaztli consists of a virtual representation of a teponaztli, a percussion instrument originating in the pre-Hispanic period in Mexico. The direct interaction of the instrument in virtual format through a digital device allows for its implementation of gamification dynamics and game elements mediated by technology, favoring the appropriation of multicultural skills and an approach of students to the musical roots and traditions of our country.

Agile Practices and Organizational Agility in Software Ecosystems

As software products increasingly become part of larger ecosystems, research and development (R&D) units of software producers organize themselves around projects to become more responsive to the environment. Organizations participating in software ecosystems must continuously adapt and adjust their software development and maintenance processes to drive both medium-term and long-term innovation. Agile methods and practices are widely adopted to guide the collaboration within and between project teams in software development. Moreover, when successfully attained, agility can drive innovation by enabling software development organizations to cope with technological changes and exploit emerging opportunities in software ecosystems. In this article, we focus on how organizations attain agility in the maintenance and development of software products. To answer this question, we conduct a longitudinal case study of Agile Scrum implementation in the R&D unit of a major supplier of telecommunication equipment. We investigate the emerging tensions and highlight practices used to balance these tensions in the Agile Scrum implementation. We identify four capabilities and ten practices that support effective collaboration and coordination in the development and maintenance of software products. The study offers practical guidance for R&D managers to attain agility in software ecosystems.

Agile Project Management in Food Industry

Abstract The goal of this paper is to be an incipient case study of interdisciplinarity between AGILE SCRUM Methodology and food processing industry. The purposes of interdisciplinarity are profit maximization, productivity increasing and customer satisfaction. This paper starts with a short introduction in theoretical aspects about Agile, including SCRUM framework, emphasizing the applicability of SCRUM Methodology in many fields, including biotechnologies and food processing industry.

Mobile Application Design: Caries Health Care for Children

Tooth decay is a problem that occurs in every person. However, children are the most vulnerable due to their diet, the consumption of foods high in sugar and poor oral hygiene. Due to this problem, the design of a mobile application was developed with the objective of preventing tooth decay in children, encouraging good oral hygiene habits in children. The mobile application basically teaches the child with the help of 3D modeling the correct way to brush his or her teeth. In addition, of using the smartphone camera to capture a photograph of the teeth. In this way it performs the analysis applying artificial intelligence to diagnose if the patient presents symptoms of caries. Also, creates a dependency of the child on the application each time he/she brushes correctly. The application provides bonuses for progressing and unlocking new interactive features; this way, attention is captured and a good habit is maintained. The agile Scrum methodology was used because it presents an orderly structure and allows adaptability. Also, offers a wide variety of graphical tools and strategies capable of displaying information in a structured way.

Effect of Sociability and Curiosity of Senior Developers in Building Agile Scrum Team Competency

Effect of Sociability and Curiosity of Senior Developers in Building Agile Scrum Team Competency

Effect of Sociability and Curiosity of Senior Developers in Building Agile Scrum Team Competency

This paper aims to investigate the mechanisms that contribute to propagation of competence in an Agile Scrum team. This study seeks to challenge the traditional view of bounded rationality (BR). An Agile Scrum team (Team) is expected to build problem solving competence quickly as the expected ramp up time continues to shrink. But the team has a mixture of expertise, competence and sociability levels that affect out-of-the-box performance. The objective is to expand BR into the social realm and see how teams can self-organize and reconfigure to allow effective problem solving. Studies have shown that agent-based computational simulation is an appropriate technique to explore this point from a theoretical perspective. (Fioretti, 2013) (Secchi, 2015). The first step is to define the problem, discuss how senior team members exhibit high curiosity and apply sociability and cognitive resources to develop overall team competence. This dynamic is modeled and simulated in NetLogoR and the results are analyzed. Finally, some key findings are presented and discussed.

The Development of E-Magang System for Independent Learning-Independent Campus Program in Universitas Dharmawangsa

A country's development might be represented by its education system. The Indonesian government, through the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology make a breakthrough through Regulation of Minister of Education and Culture no. 3 of 2020 on the Independent Learning-Independent Campus (Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka / MBKM) program. This policy provides private and state university students an opportunity to enrich and broaden their knowledge and competence in a real life settings. One of the implementations of this program is the industrial internship. In Dharmawangsa University, MBKM policy has been translated into an industrial internship program through collaboration with several companies and industrial sectors. In order to monitor its students activities during the internship, Undhar assigns a permanent lecturer as a field guide lecturer (Dosen Pembimbing Lapangan/DPL). The monitoring system presented in this paper was developed using Agile Scrum, which began with problem identification stage to system testing stage. This method was selected due to easier adjustability, as it allows further development following the needs. This work produced a web-based system for monitoring and reporting students internship activities, allowing students and DPL to communicate more easily related to the students internship activities.

A Human Factors Study of Risk Management of Complex Agile Scrum Projects in Large Enterprises

Agile Project Management methods have gained phenomenal success in the IT software world in managing projects of high complexity and uncertainty. However, Agile projects come with their unique set of risks. This paper seeks to explore the risks posed by human factors to complex Agile Scrum projects in large enterprises. Project Risk Management is crucial in determining the future performance of a complex project. Increasing project complexity makes it more and more difficult to anticipate potential events that could affect the project and to make effective decisions to reduce project risk exposure. This is even more true for Agile projects that promote immediate and frequent visibility of risk factors and distributed decision making in projects. A dominant reason for failure of complex Agile projects are the risks caused by human and organization factors. This paper will analyze the delivery risks posed by human factors and the traditionally hierarchical decision making in large enterprise systems.

Peer Control Interactions: Boundary Spanners Upholding the Paradox of Self-Management

Peer control is considered the process whereby team members notice and respond to their peers’ behavior or performance. While peer control occurs during social interactions between team members, research is yet to uncover how team members use direct control tactics to coordinate their interdependent taskwork. We shadowed and studied the interaction dynamics of five agile scrum teams and their meetings over a 18-month period to explore how team members attempt to control each other’s behavior, what drives these attempts, and how peers respond in these situations. Results show that team members in close contact with the customer, so-called Product Owners, controlled their peers most often during daily meetings. They used their position as boundary spanner, which holds information advantages and role ambiguity, to legitimize their coercive control tactics (i.e., threatening peers to quickly deliver high-quality work, directing unsolicited work instructions, and making overruling decisions). While peers responded relatively passively by ignoring, agreeing, joking, or conditionally taking responsibility for the tasks, it did impact the team’s performance both positively and negatively. These findings are in sharp contrast with the principles of agile working (i.e., self-management, lack of hierarchy, and team/individual autonomy). Our study contributes to developing a better theoretical understanding of peer control interactions, sheds light on the influential control tactics of boundary spanners, plus reveals crucial trade-offs that peers make when formulating their reactions.

Collaborative experience between scientific software projects using Agile Scrum development

AbstractDeveloping sustainable software for the scientific community requires expertise in software engineering and domain science. This can be challenging due to the unique needs of scientific software, the insufficient resources for software engineering practices in the scientific community, and the complexity of developing for evolving scientific contexts. While open‐source software can partially address these concerns, it can introduce complicating dependencies and delay development. These issues can be reduced if scientists and software developers collaborate. We present a case study wherein scientists from the SuperNova Early Warning System collaborated with software developers from the Scalable Cyberinfrastructure for Multi‐Messenger Astrophysics project. The collaboration addressed the difficulties of open‐source software development, but presented additional risks to each team. For the scientists, there was a concern of relying on external systems and lacking control in the development process. For the developers, there was a risk in supporting a user‐group while maintaining core development. These issues were mitigated by creating a second Agile Scrum framework in parallel with the developers' ongoing Agile Scrum process. This Agile collaboration promoted communication, ensured that the scientists had an active role in development, and allowed the developers to evaluate and implement the scientists' software requirements. The collaboration provided benefits for each group: the scientists actuated their development by using an existing platform, and the developers utilized the scientists' use‐case to improve their systems. This case study suggests that scientists and software developers can avoid scientific computing issues by collaborating and that Agile Scrum methods can address emergent concerns.

Aligning Software Engineering Teaching Strategies and Practices with Industrial Needs

Several approaches have been proposed to reduce the gap between software engineering education and the needs and practices of the software industry. Many of them aim to promote a more active learning attitude in students and provide them with more realistic experiences, thus recreating industry software development environments and collaborative development and, in some cases, with the involvement of companies mainly acting as potential customers. Since many degree courses typically offer separate subjects to teach requirements engineering, analysis and design, coding, or validation, the integration of all these phases normally necessitates experience in a project context and is usually carried out in a final year project. The approach described in this article benefits from the close involvement of a software house company which goes beyond the common involvement of a potential customer. Students are integrated into distributed teams comprising students, teachers and IT professionals. Teams follow the agile Scrum methodology and use the OutSystems low-code development platform providing students with the experience of an almost real scenario. The results show that this approach complements the knowledge and practice acquired in course subjects, develops the students’ technical and non-technical skills, such as commitment, teamwork, and communication, and initiates them in the methodologies and development strategies used in these companies. The feedback from the teachers involved, software companies and students was very positive.

Hygeia – An Automated Disinfection Booth using FAR UVC

This paper addressed the current gaps of the health and safety protocols followed by the health workers and other front-line workers in conducting disinfection of self and personal protective equipment (PPE) after using it. The current disinfection system disinfects surfaces, water, air, materials, utensils, rooms, compartments, foods and other already came in various ways. Some of these include gas disinfecting, alcohol, chlorine, bleach, detergents, steams, hot water, hot gas, chemicals, UV rays and more in which according to them, still poses risk among health workers and front-line workers not during the duty but on the doping and donning of the PPE. The researchers used the Agile Scrum methodology of software development; thus, user stories were collected during stakeholders’ meeting. The meeting includes the researchers, RHU personnel and the front-liners. This allows all the concerned individuals and agencies to express their concern and needs during the donning and doffing process. After the meeting, the researchers decided to develop Hygeia, a system of interconnected electronic devices that aims to automate the disinfection of booths using UVC light as disinfectant. It used the concept of IOT which Arduino Microcontroller, Raspberry Pi, Sensors, Motors, Relay, Switches, Pumps and Water Valves were used to deliver its specified functions. Daily standup meetings were conducted in order to monitor the progress of the project and if it meets the needs of the client before delivering the fully potential product. Keywords: Micro-controllers, Internet of Things, Ultraviolet C, CoVid Response

Aplikasi Pencari Tempat Magang Berbasis Android Menggunakan Metode Agile Scrum

Internship is a process that is an obligation to be carried out in the academic process at the Telkom Institute of Technology Purwokerto, however with various media sources used in finding internships, students have problems in finding suitable internships. This study aims to apply Agile Scrum and Simple Additive Weighting in making applications to find a suitable internship place. Agile Scrum is used as a method of continuous application development, Simple Additive Weighting is used as a method in determining recommendations based on existing input. Application testing is carried out using Black Box Testing which tests the success of the function in carrying out its scenario and User Acceptance Test which is used as a benchmark in the suitability of the application with user needs. The results of this study are an android application in the form of an apk that was tested using Black Box Testing and got valid results in all scenarios and had a score of 87% on the User Acceptance Test

Agile Scrum Applied in Agricultural Processes

Abstract This paper presents a case study of interdisciplinary subjects, more precisely the AGILE SCRUM specific to software development applied in agricultural processes to increase the productivity, maximize the profit and to emphasize the benefits of AGILE methodology which is suitable in every field of industry. Starting with theoretical aspects about Agile project management approach and philosophy, including values and principles, continuing with SCRUM framework, is emphasized the applicability of the method in various fields of industry, including agriculture.

Digital platform based on geomarketing as an improvement in micro and small enterprises

After the situation generated by the pandemic caused by COVID-19, micro and small enterprises (MSEs) faced a complex reality, having to cope with business uncertainty. This research proposes a digital platform based on geomarketing as a growth and support strategy for MSEs, with the objective of improving their labor and capital productivity, through the incorporation of the technological factor, which will have a great impact on them, helping them to continue operating and not having to close their businesses. The platform was developed under the agile Scrum methodology because it is adaptable to the constant changes in the mobile application development process, having as indicators labor productivity and capital productivity. Finally, the results revealed that labor productivity increased by 30.86 percent, meaning that, for every hour worked per person, more sales were made. As for capital productivity, it decreased by 1.47 percent, meaning that investment decreased for each value added of each product sold.