Working and Playing with Scrum

Abstract

Software development is sometimes considered a boring task. To avoid this fact we propose an approach based on the incorporation of game mechanics into Scrum framework, in order to change its use to a more amusing task, by taking advantage of the gamification trend. Gamification is applied to non-game applications and processes, trying to encourage people to adopt them. This work shows a suggestion of Scrum gamification together with an evaluation of the proposed approach in a case study of a software house. The use of this concept can help the software industry to increase the team productivity in a natural way.