Minna Kilpala¹ and Tommi Karkkainen², ¹Tieto Finland Oy, Finland and ²University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Global software development using agile methods is commonplace in software industry nowadays. Scrum, as the agile development management framework, can be distributed in many ways, especially concerning how the key roles are presented in different sites. We describe here a single case study of a distributed Scrum, mainly for maintenance of the already constructed web portal. Using a qualitative method, both working well and challenging parts of the software work, as experienced by the project stakeholders, are revealed and discussed.

Scrum, software maintenance, case study, agile project management