Applying Software Craftsmanship Practices to a Scrum Project: an Experience Report

TL;DR

This paper reports on applying Software Craftsmanship principles within a Scrum project, emphasizing technical practices to improve code quality and reduce technical debt, offering practical insights for teams adopting these values.

Contribution

It presents an experience report detailing how to integrate Software Craftsmanship practices into a Scrum environment, providing a practical process implementation guide.

Findings

Improved code quality and maintainability.

Reduced technical debt in the project.

Enhanced team adherence to craftsmanship principles.

Abstract

The Software Craftsmanship manifesto has defined values and principles that software development teams should follow to deliver quality software that fulfills functional and non-functional requirements without dealing with high amounts of technical debt. Software craftsmanship approach to software development prioritizes technical practices in order to provide a clean code base. This work analyzes a set of practices that can be applied to a Scrum project that aims to incorporate Software Craftsmanship values. The process implementation described may be a useful contribution for software development teams who also intend to implement Software Craftsmanship on their projects.