期刊名称：Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
印刷版ISSN：1547-5840
电子版ISSN：1547-5867
出版年度：2010
卷号：7
页码：489-489
出版社：Informing Science Institute
摘要：This research attempts to identify how Agile systems development methodologies like SCRUM
are affected by three behavioural issues - student syndrome, team member stress and organisational
slack. The student syndrome applies when humans start tasks as late as possible and waste
safety margins thus increasing time pressure and stress levels. Stress can be both good and bad in
a project situation. Stress levels that exceed an optimum level result in decreased performance
and eventual burnout, whereas stress levels that were below a minimum level result in decreased
performance. Organizational slack is a measure of “busyness” and is relates to staff being 100%
scheduled. This is viewed as a short-term strategy which can negatively affect longer-term change
and reinvention.
These three issues can affect project productivity and project outcomes. This research analyses
how these three behavioral issues affect plan-based development approaches and agile approaches
(specifically SCRUM) in terms of team productivity and project outcomes.
This paper describes these behavioural issues and how they could affect a typical systems development
project. Four research questions were derived to be used in the next phase of the research.
This next phase will identify a suitable student project which will be completed by an undergraduate
student team using a traditional project approach at the same time as a post-graduate
project team using SCRUM.
