Scrum Project Management Dynamics Simulation

The paper presents dynamic aspects of software development project management. Particularly, a client influence or intervention risks, staff promotions, and their influences to software development project management with Agile/Scrum approaches and processes in terms of project performance dynamics and also economic results are considered. During the software development life cycle, the development team is expected to understand customer needs, but it is challenged by many constraints, e.g. narrow project schedule, customers' interventions and changes, short budget, or staff promotions. For this analysis a simulation model of software project management with application of continuous simulation by System Dynamics (SD) approach is developed. The paper shows dynamics of software project management caused by project risks and disturbances, particularly client interference or intervention, and also draws some conclusions regarding client intervention risk management during software contractor project performance, based on simulation experiments. The paper constitutes an original proposal of PM archetype simulation model and a research of client intervention risk influence to software project management due to application of Agile/Scrum elements within classical PMI/PRINCE2 methods management environments.