Challenges encountered by eHealth Scrum software development teams during COVID-19
(2022) INFM10 20221Department of Informatics
- Abstract (Swedish)
- With the emergence of COVID-19, various industries felt under the pressure from limitations associated with the pandemic and transition to a work-from-home workstyle. Healthcare and Software Development is one of the industries that had to face increased demand for their products and services under severe circumstances. As an interconnection of these spheres,eHealth had to address challenges that are associated with both industries.This study goes through the challenges associated with Communication, Relationship, Scrum Practices, Extension and Well being and Work environment that eHealth Scrum teams had to mitigate during various stages of COVID-19 and the strategies they applied to overcome them. For these purposes, the analysis of... (More)
- With the emergence of COVID-19, various industries felt under the pressure from limitations associated with the pandemic and transition to a work-from-home workstyle. Healthcare and Software Development is one of the industries that had to face increased demand for their products and services under severe circumstances. As an interconnection of these spheres,eHealth had to address challenges that are associated with both industries.This study goes through the challenges associated with Communication, Relationship, Scrum Practices, Extension and Well being and Work environment that eHealth Scrum teams had to mitigate during various stages of COVID-19 and the strategies they applied to overcome them. For these purposes, the analysis of current research literature and documented software developers’ experiences were considered and a set of 9 qualitative interviews with eHealth
Scrum team members were conducted. The research resulted in the identification of main challenges across different phases of COVID-19 that occur during the transition to work from home and guidelines on how eHealth Scrum teams may enable a smoother transition to remote or hybrid work style. (Less)
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- author
- Petrash, Yana LU and Rathod, Bhoomika
- supervisor
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- Asif Akram LU
- organization
- course
- INFM10 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- eHealth, Healthcare, Agile, Scrum, COVID-19, remote work
- report number
- INF22-02
- language
- English
- id
- 9099010
- date added to LUP
- 2022-09-07 09:28:39
- date last changed
- 2022-09-07 09:28:39
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