Overhauling a Failed Project Using Out of the Box Scrum

A software solutions company out-sourced a ground-up application build to a team of globally distributed independent consultants. The project eventually exceeded time and cost expectations and failed to deliver production ready tested software according to a planned market release window. The asserted reasons for this planned versus actual delta varied with time including failure of leadership, failure of project oversight, to design and implementation flaws and so on. Out of the box Scrum was implemented by a newly contracted consultant and the project delivered 153% of plan by the end of four two-week sprints. This report discusses the problem, the implemented solution, and the results while challenging what really made the difference.