Work in Progress - The Impact of the Student Scrum Master on Quality and Delivery Time on Students' Projects

Abstract

Various studies have been carried out to determine the impact of Scrum in students' projects. Many of these studies assign the role of the Scrum master to a lecturer or a mentor. This may have unintended consequences on the students' team, including making them feeling micro-managed and also not allowing the agile team self-organization which is a key requirement in Scrum. Furthermore, students may feel they are not in charge of their work.This paper investigates the impact that a student Scrum master has on the quality and delivery time on students' projects. The preliminary results of the investigation show that the student Scrum master plays a positive enabling role in assisting the team to meet both quality and time project constraints.