Remote communication in Scrum teams - a COVID-19 preventive measure or work time optimisation?

• Authors: Kamil Brodnicki

Abstracts

EN

The article presents the impact of remote work, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, on the functioning of Scrum teams. Attempts have been made to analyse the positive and negative aspects of remote work. The article also looks at the impact of remote work on the level of communication and efficiency of Scrum teams. For this purpose, the author conducted research on a sample of 40 organisations that declared to use Scrum methodology, using 187 questionnaires as the research material. The study was carried out at the turn of April and May 2021 and was carried out using the CAWI technique. The obtained results were analysed using the Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis methods, and enable defining a picture of an organisation's readiness to work remotely. In addition, they also allowed for an assessment of how the infrastructure used for remote work communication translates into the organisation of Sprint meetings. This paper presents conclusions aimed at counteracting the observed irregularities detected during the tests. At the end, the author proposes solutions that could improve communication within Scrum teams, with remote work in mind.

Keywords

EN

Scrum Team; remote communication; agile; communication channel; COVID-19

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
• Journal: e-mentor
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 5 (92)
• Pages: 81-90

Contributors

author

Kamil Brodnicki

• Gdańsk University of Technology

• https://orcid.org/0000000323912072

Identifiers

DOI

10.15219/em92.1546

Biblioteka Nauki

1927531