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This document provides questions for a tutorial on information systems development methods. It discusses the benefits of the Scrum agile development method over the traditional Waterfall method based on a case study. The benefits highlighted include higher success rates for Scrum projects, its collaborative and adaptive nature which allows for changes, and its focus on delivering working software quickly through short iterative cycles rather than lengthy documentation. While the document provides a positive view of Scrum, it also asks students to consider potential downsides of Scrum and arguments in favor of the Waterfall method. The second part mentions completing Excel tasks for the tutorial.

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Tutorial 6 Activities Answers

This document provides questions for a tutorial on information systems development methods. It discusses the benefits of the Scrum agile development method over the traditional Waterfall method based on a case study. The benefits highlighted include higher success rates for Scrum projects, its collaborative and adaptive nature which allows for changes, and its focus on delivering working software quickly through short iterative cycles rather than lengthy documentation. While the document provides a positive view of Scrum, it also asks students to consider potential downsides of Scrum and arguments in favor of the Waterfall method. The second part mentions completing Excel tasks for the tutorial.

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Transforming Business with Information

Systems BISM1201
Tutorial 6 questions

Lecturers: Associate Professor Stan Karanasios


Ms Shahrzad Roohy Gohar
BISM1201 Transforming Business with Information Systems

Part 1 - Information Systems Development


Read the short article/case: “How project management turned into a Scrum” (2015) by Pollack, L, in
the Financial Times (Click here to access it through the library).

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Q1: Based on the case what do you think are the benefits of agile/Scrum over waterfall?

The case demonstrates….


"Waterfall", has a success rate of just 11 per cent,
Higher success rate: 39 per cent (SCRUM) success rate over 11 per cent (Waterfall)
Waterfall involves a lengthy process of gathering and documenting all aspects of the new product. The
documents are passed through assorted departments to be signed off. Jeff Sutherland , co-creator of
Scrum, refers to such requirements as a "tall stack of futility". They force people to "endorse a fantasy", he
says, as projects rarely proceed as envisaged, leading to cost overruns and often outright failure.

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Q2: Based on the case why do you think that Scrum IS projects have a higher success rate than waterfall?

Speed
Collaborative nature
Change friendly
Not stuck in the predictive nature of waterfall

Difference between predictive and adaptive approaches

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Q3: Based on the case why do you think the Scrum approach makes IS development faster?

Collaborative and adaptive ways of working: SCRUM accounts for the need for close collaboration with
customers and responsiveness to change, as well as the importance of producing software that works
instead of piles of documentation. Rather than a wait of months between project inception and product
delivery, there are short cycles of development completed by cross-functional teams with the goal of
delivering a product to the customer that they can use and further refine.

The notion of a Minimum Viable Product: The aim is to have a potentially shippable product at the end of a
sprint that can be shown to the customer, who can give feedback that influences the next sprint.

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Q4: The case provides a positive perspective on Scrum, what are some of the possible
downsides and arguments for Waterfall?

Can deal with the pace of change better: DPS Dental, a dental lab in Iowa, decided to start using Scrum
when the pace of change in the prosthetics industry became harder to ignore, with new 3D printing
methods and advances in materials, and its managers noticed that another local company had begun to
move to the Agile methodology.

Performance is higher in agile/scrum ways of working: The performance gap between the newer Agile
ways of working and more traditional styles of top-down, plan-driven project management is huge.

What else ?

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Part 2 - Excel

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Excel
Complete the Excel tasks for Tutorial 6. This should have been completed prior to the tutorial.

Students should use this opportunity to ask questions.

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