Succeeding with Agile

Three Areas of Conflict

Sliger describes the intersections between Scrum and sequential development in terms of how to approach the specific instances where two unlike methodologies converge. Barry Boehm and Richard Turner, on the other hand, write more in terms of how to avoid the three types of conflicts that arise when Scrum and a sequential process coexist:

• Development process. A development process conflict originates from the differences between the Scrum and sequential processes.

• Business process. A business process conflict is one created by the different ways in which Scrum and sequential teams interact with the business. An organization used to the plans created by a sequential team will be unfamiliar with the type of planning ...