A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF AGILE AND SCRUM FRAMEWORKS ON SOFTWARE PROJECT DELIVERY TIMELINES, TEAM COLLABORATION EFFICIENCY, AND STAKEHOLDER SATISFACTION IN MID-SCALE WEB AND MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to assess the advantages of Agile and Scrum frameworks for the management of time, collaboration, and satisfaction levels of software project stakeholders in web and mobile applications for mid-scale development environments. Therefore, the application of the Agile software development processes, which are characterized by new approaches and methods that focus on iterative and incremental values, is effective in increasing the speed of development and improving the efficiency of the organization and its teams. Scrum is one of the most popular Agile methods that uses sprints, feedback, and concrete roles to organize work on big complicated software projects. This topic focuses on the aspect of flexibility in use of Scrum as an improvement measure in project timelines’ overall magnification of iteration speeds. The research further shows the effectiveness of scrum meetings which increase effective collaboration by making use of daily stand-up meetings in an organization. In addition, the inclusion of stakeholders results in increased stakeholder satisfaction, especially because of daily updates during the sprint review and feedback sessions, which allows for the development of a product that meets their expectations. However, they also mentioned some limitations including appearance of scope creep and some problems of coordination in mid-size projects, which have the potential to act as threats to most optimal utilization of the scrum approach. This research presents information on the versatility and effectiveness of agile and Scrum in mid- size projects to help organizations who wish to implement these frameworks.