Scrum - From hype to disappointment?

Sammanfattning: The Agile method has since it got published, of many been regarded as the universal solution to increased flexibility in software development. Scrum is, without a doubt, the most widely used Agile method among software development teams. Nonetheless, there are many challenges with the Scrum method, and therefore, success factors need to be identified to make up for its weaknesses. Lack of enthusiasm or events being time-consuming is some of the challenges the team faces with the framework, which can result in its members only using Scrum partially. For that reason, the main objective of this thesis is to identify which parts of Scrum are most commonly skipped by the members of an Agile development team for software, and why. In the initial study, a content analysis was conducted to examine how people in forums and on social media express themselves regarding Scrum, to identify the most common objections to the framework. The conclusion of the work was that the sprint review was identified as the most common event to skip, and the number one reason for skipping an event was that it felt unnecessary. Sprint planning was the step seen as giving the most negative consequences when skipped, and some of the risks of skipping a step were that it could give less oversight, a low feedback cycle, and a lack of communication, and collaboration. A positive outcome of skipping an event was that it allowed for more time to work, to get an uninterrupted flow and less overhead. To get an even better insight into the Scrum team’s daily work, the future study would be to perform a case study for an in-depth, detailed examination of the challenges with Scrum.