A comprehensive study on state of Scrum development

The software industry has moved from the traditional software development to the agile software development model. Under this umbrella there are many methodologies which are Scrum, Extreme Programming, Crystal, FDD (Feature-driven development), DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method), etc. This paper investigates about the current state of Scrum, its popularity and its evolution in the recent five years. We have taken into consideration the published literature and industrial survey. Our result reveals that among various agile methodologies, Scrum is a popular software development methodology used by industries and it is also the area of interest for the research community.