Agile method is a method of software development management that comes in response to criticism of the waterfall method. This method is widely applied in large-scale software companies, because of its superiority that emphasizes service oriented rather than waterfall approach. One of the frameworks of the agile method is Scrum. Scrum is a framework that focuses on software development management on developer team performance as a single unit that works together indivisibly, iteration of product items, product incremental, and collaboration with customers. In Scrum, product requirements are flexible because they are not exhaustive at the start of a project, but at each iteration, because customers generally difficult to express their needs explicitly. However, how does Scrum's effectiveness improve software productivity? In this paper, we propose a literature study about SCRUM implementation of some articles that considers resources, cost, time, and system complexity for minimizing software development problems. The results had proven that Scrum could improve software productivity, but with some challenges, such as how to organize team skills, cultural constraints and scenarios of different companies, including communication problems between teams that are often constrained because of the large number of teams and teams scattered in multiple locations.
Artefacts and agile method tailoring in large-scale offshore software development programmes