The Impact of Team Climate on Failure and Success of Scrum Adoption

Abstract

Software companies are widely using Agile methods in recent years. Scrum is the most popular Agile method which focuses on project management by defining the required roles, responsibilities, and activities. Despite of its simplicity, many reports address the challenges that threat the software teams when adapting to Scrum. Most of these reports highlight the details of the challenges which most of them roots back to the team climate. On the other hand, it seems that Scrum facilitators originate from the team climate, too. This study aimed to show the impact of software team climate on both failure and success of Scrum adoption. The results show that team climate has positive and negative impact on Scrum adoption process.