Sarah Beecham

An empirical study of the product owner role in scrum

2018

The Product Owner (PO) is critical for translating business needs into a software implementation by gathering and prioritizing requirements, and assessing whether features have met the definition of "done." There is a paucity of detail …

Scaling agile across the global organization

2018

The adoption, scaling and tailoring of agile methods depends on several factors, such as the size of the software development organization, business goals, and operative model. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) was developed to support …

Digital Contact Tracing Apps for COVID-19: Development of a Citizen-Centered Evaluation Framework (Preprint)

2021

<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> The silent transmission of COVID-19 has led to an exponential growth of fatal infections. With over 4 million deaths worldwide, the need to control and stem transmission has never been more critical. New …