Factors that contribute significantly to Scrum adoption
Ridewaan Hanslo, Ernest Mnkandla, Anwar Vahed
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2019F220
Citation: Proceedings of the 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki (eds). ACSIS, Vol. 18, pages 813–821 (2019)
Abstract. Scrum is the most adopted and one of the most under-researched Agile methodologies. The research conducted on Scrum adoption is mainly qualitative. Therefore, there was a need for a quantitative study to investigate Scrum adoption challenges.
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