Case Study

At Gothaer Insurance Group, a long-term program to introduce a new policy system was terminated without the desired outcomes. A new program, GoSMART, was introduced to buy a policy system instead of developing it in-house. A team responsible for modelling insurance products decided that the waterfall approach was no longer suitable for this specific task. Intrigued by the possibilities that agile software development appeared to hold, the team adopted Scrum, hoping to improve efficiency. With no other project changing the development approach, the team was left as an agile island in a waterfall environment.

Question: Get familiarised with the business structure and background of the case. Using the template below, form a report which include analysing the business, summarising the business case, identifying the business objectives, discussing the Current Situation and Problem/Opportunity Statement, Critical Assumption and Constraints, Analysis of Options and Recommendation, Preliminary Project Requirements, Potential Risks. At the end, you will write about Finding a Suitable Process Model in terms of Waterfall or Agile model.

ensure you have filled in each section.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction/ Background

2. What are the goals of the project?

3. Current Situation and Problem/Opportunity Statement

4. Critical Assumption and Constraints

5. Analysis of Options and Recommendation

6. Preliminary Project Requirements

7. Potential Risks

8. Finding a Suitable Process Model

9. References