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Using Scrum Together with UML Models: A Collaborative University-Industry R&D Software Project

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Conducting research and development (R&D) software projects, in an environment where both industry and university collaborate, is challenging due to many factors. In fact, industrial companies and universities have generally different interests and objectives whenever they collaborate. For this reason, it is not easy to manage and negotiate the industrial companies’ interests, namely schedules and their expectations. Conducting such projects in an agile framework is expected to decrease these risks, since partners have the opportunity to frequently interact with the development team in short iterations and are constantly aware of the characteristics of the system under development. However, in this type of collaborative R&D projects, it is often advantageous to include some waterfall practices, like upfront requirements modeling using UML models, which are not commonly used in agile processes like Scrum, in order to better prepare the implementation phase of the project. This paper presents some lessons learned that result from experience of the authors in adopting some Scrum practices in a R&D project, like short iterations, backlogs, and product increments, and simultaneously using UML models, namely use cases and components.

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This research is sponsored by the Portugal Incentive System for Research and Technological Development PEst-UID/CEC/00319/2013 and by project in co–promotion nº 36265/2013 (Project HMIExcel - 2013-2015).

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  1. ALGORITMI Research Center, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Nuno Santos, João M. Fernandes, M. Sameiro Carvalho, Fábio A. Fernandes, Márcio P. Rebelo, Diogo Barbosa, Paulo Maia & Ricardo J. Machado

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    João M. Fernandes

  3. Department of Production and Systems, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    M. Sameiro Carvalho

  4. Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal S.A., Braga, Portugal

    Pedro V. Silva & Marco Couto

  5. Department of Information Systems, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Ricardo J. Machado

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Santos, N. et al. (2016). Using Scrum Together with UML Models: A Collaborative University-Industry R&D Software Project. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42089-9_34

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