The official thesis kick-off date is the 15. th march 2006, end date is set to 12 months later. My project supervisor is Bent Brun Kristiansen from The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.
The purpose of this site section is to keep an updated track of the thesis' progress. Which means an abstraction over the considerations and material which later on will be included in the final report. The primary thesis questions are:
- Handling unstable dependant factors in software projects
- To what degree do they influence the developers work
- To what extent do the process used in the project determine the flexibility towards change
- An evaluation of Scrum compared to the questions and considerations raised by the problem domain.
This will follow two different paths, the primary will be a case study in cooperation with Mikro Værkstedet of one of their software development projects. The case goal is to analyze and evaluate on the influential global factors and the process used by the development team. Secondly I'll be conducting several interviews with other companies who have made the transition to agile processes, more on this in the 'Interviews' section.
The final report therefore will include both theoretical and experimental parts and a discussion on how the considered problems are handled in a danish organizational context.
