ADCO Construction Company and Agile Scrum Methodology Report

This research paper investigates the effectiveness of the Agile Scrum methodology in the construction of the Masada Private Hospital project by ADCO Construction Company in Australia in 2017. The study aims to identify the importance of Agile Scrum in this context, understand key parameters for project success, and recommend strategies for future projects. The report provides a brief historical overview of project management, discusses the development of Agile Scrum, and highlights its advantages and disadvantages. The research utilizes a qualitative secondary data collection method, employing a positivism research philosophy and a deductive approach. The data analysis includes both quantitative and qualitative aspects, focusing on factors influencing project management methodology, the impact of Agile Scrum, and the successful completion of the Masada Hospital project. Recommendations are made to mitigate potential pitfalls and ensure the continued success of Agile Scrum in construction projects. The paper concludes by emphasizing the role of Agile Scrum in enhancing building construction processes and fostering flexible communication among team members.

The Effectiveness of Agile Scrum
Methodology as a tool in the Success
of the Masada Private Hospital Project
by ADCO Construction Company in
Australia in 2017
RESEARCH PAPER

Background
• ADCO Victorian has done the Construction
and Design of Masada Private Hospital.
• ADCO is the leading construction company
in Australia.
• ADCO has completed the construction
process by implementing the Agile Scrum
Methodology of Project Management.
• The Agile Scrum Methodology is used for
completing the project successfully.

Aim, Objective, and Research
Question
Aim:
Aim of this research paper is to identify the importance
of Agile Scrum Methodology for the construction project
of Masada Private Hospital in Australia.
Objective:
To identify the importance of agile scrum
methodology for construction of Masada Private
Hospital by ADCO Construction Company.
To understand the parameters that are included in
successful delivering of the project using the Agile
Scrum Methodology.
To recommend some strategies that would help
ADCO Construction Company in their future work.

Brief Historical Overview of How
Building Projects were Managed
• All the companies began growing nationally as
well as started expanding globally in the market
place by the end of twentieth century.
• With new and uprising technologies in
enterprises, the managers of construction
companies were asked to divide all the working
staffs into two different groups.
• The methodologies that are involved in
Construction Company of project management
specifies all the tasks that are needed to be taken
and the time to do the work so that the resources
and time of the company is maximized.

Development of Agile Scrum
Methodology in Construction
• Difficulties of Earlier Systems in
Construction Companies.
• Challenge 1: Poor profitability and poor
productivity
• Challenge 2: Project Performance
• Agile Scrum Methodology involves to
handle more complex tasks and the tasks
that are subjected to risks.
• Scrum method involves simple roles and
responsibilities as well as conducts
meetings for completing the project
successfully.

Continuation..
• The project of Masada Private Hospital,
undertaken by ADCO Construction company,
working with the Scrum Methodology
normally divides the work into different
parts and completes the project in an
iterative way.
• The entire work is divided into time-boxed
having a series of week cycles generally
from 1 to 4 cycles.
• Meetings are held in each iteration and a
daily meeting is held for the team, project
owner, and the scrum master.

Parameters included in successful delivering of
the project using the Agile Scrum Methodology
• Scrum Roles- The team of Scrum
Framework consists of cross-functional
units and the team is self-organized.
• Scrum Artefacts- The artefacts involved in
Product Backlog are generally prioritised
creating a list of all the different items in
constructing a building plan.
• Scrum Events- The main events of scrum
are inspection, adaption, and transparency.

Effectiveness and Disadvantages
of Agile Scrum Methodology
• Advantages
• Save money and time of the company.
• Scrum method helps in successful deliver of the project
in which the requirements of the business are hard to
quantify.
• Updated frequently depending on the progress of the
work by organizing regular meetings.
• Disadvantages
• Leads to creep the scope because of definite finishing
date.
• Because of non-cooperation, there are many chances of
project failure.
• The projects that deals with large teams cannot be adopt
the method of agile scrum.

Research Methodology
• Qualitative secondary data
collection method was conducted to
carry out the research paper and
analyze the data from them.
• The research philosophy that was
taken while conducting this
research about Agile Scrum
Methodology was positivism
research philosophy.
• In this research paper, the approach
that is used is the deductive
approach

Continuation…
• The research design that is taken for
carrying out the data analysis in this
research paper is the descriptive research
design.
• In this research paper, the preliminary data
will be collected from population who have
connections over the business associations
who utilizes the distributed innovation of
computing in business operations.
• The data analysis method used in this
research paper is qualitative analysis.

Data Analysis
• Quantitative Analysis- Contains of three
themes
• Theme 1: Factors behind involving Project
Management Methodology in Construction
Companies
• Theme2: Impact of Agile Scrum Construction
Methodology in increasing the importance of
Project Management
• Theme 3: Importance of Agile Scrum Methodology
in Construction of Masada Private Hospital by
ADCO Construction
• Theme 4: Factors leading to successful completion
of Masada Private Hospital by implementation of
Agile Scrum Methodology

Continuation…
• Many problems as well in implementing the
software of project management.
• The main objective that can be summarized
from this paper is to identify the success rate of
the project management in large construction
projects.
• About 159 questionnaires were made from
which the answer was taken from each
personnel who are involved in the construction
projects and their analysis were studied with a
theoretical framework.
• Almost 32 case studies were studied from the
interviews of the personnel who were involved.

Continuation…
• The main objective of this study was to
examine the success rate of the
construction process with the involvement
of Agile Scrum Methodology.
• All the 32 case studies that were
examined contained the pure concept of
project management.
• The study was carried out with the
different clients who were having a similar
organizational goal of completing the
projects successfully with different
business strategies.

Recommendations
• To mitigate the pitfalls that arise with Agile Scrum
Methodology in the construction process, the companies
must make the sprints of the scrum methodology for a
shorter period.
• The sprints that are involved in a scrum methodology
should be divided so that there is no chance of testing
failure in the process.

Conclusion
• Project Management involves completing all the business
procedures that are involved in a business with proper knowledge,
tools, techniques, and skills to complete the project successfully.
• The projects of building construction throughout have been
successful with the combination of Agile Scrum Methodology, the
construction process of building is taken to a higher level.
• The design and the planning that are made creates an adaptive and
flexible way to proceed the construction helps to generate a flexible
communication in between different team members in a project.

Any Questions

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