Project Management Using the Scrum Agile Method: A Case Study within a Small Enterprise

Abstract

This paper tackles the use of the Scrum agile method within a Brazilian small business enterprise. It provides monitoring activities for software project management. It involves the use of human, financial, and temporal resources during a project development, increasing the rate of its successful deliveries. In order to enable the Scrum adoption, the following four distinct steps were defined: infrastructure set up, team training, Scrum agile deployment, and deployment refinement. An analysis of its main results was obtained from the application of a survey to all project stakeholders. The major improvements were identified since the first sprints, mainly involving communication, team motivation, and adaptation agility, during the chosen case study within a small enterprise.