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Several studies contribute with valuable insights into agile teamwork performance. Currently, Scrum is dominating the industrial agile software development practices. Yet, there is a lack of studies that directly explores the role of team maturity and key components of the Scrum framework on being successful at Scrum.

We investigate the impact of team maturity and four categories of the Scrum framework (team composition, Scrum values, Scrum roles, and Scrum events) on the perception of being successful at Scrum. Hence, we uncover and provide deeper insights into the characteristics and practices of what makes a team successful at Scrum.

We carry out a large-scale and cross-sectional survey. We conduct Pearson's chi-square test of independence and logistic regression analysis for team maturity and the remaining variables on being successful.

After surveying 182 Scrum team …