Teams that finish early accelerate faster: A pattern language for high performing scrum teams

Abstract

Recent surveys show that 42% of Agile projects are successful. While this is three times better than traditional projects, 49% of Agile projects are late or over budget and 9% are total failures [1]. There is a better way to help Agile teams to implement Scrum. At the 2013 Scrum PLoP Conference held in Tisvildeleje, Denmark thought leaders in the Agile community reviewed a set of Scrum Patterns that together generate a high performing Scrum team. During this editorial process it became apparent that a combination of nine Patterns in conjunction with the Scrum framework could help teams achieve Hyper-Productivity, more than a 400% increase in velocity over a team's initial velocity. © 2014 IEEE.