The paper will explore whether Scrum is suitable to be extended to non-IT small business projects in the United States. The researchers conducted a longitudinal action research with 24-month follow-up on 142 small businesses in manufacturing, retail, professional service and healthcare sectors. The results indicated that the custom Scrum had a great positive impact on the project completion rate, the satisfaction of clients, and the productivity of a team. The main modifications were the reduction of the time spent at meetings, the integration of the responsibilities of the Product Owner and Scrum Master, and documentation simplification. Study discovered that the long-term adoption was possible when the management had a commitment at the outset and where teams would continuously perfect the framework as the implementation progressed.Overall,the study can indicate that Scrum could be effective in much more than software development provided that it is adjusted to a non-IT small project environment.

Reading comprehension is the capacity to make sense and deduce the meaning of a text. Students actively engaged in collaboration and deep thinking enhance their reading comprehension skills. This action research examined the role of Collaborative Strategic Reading(CSR) in enhancing the English reading comprehension skills of eighth-grade students in a private institution in Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The purposive sampling technique was used to gather data from 30 students studying in the eighth grade. Ten observations of the class were made to define the students' current comprehension level. Pre- and post-tests were conducted to gauge the effectiveness of student-student interaction offered through pair work.  The quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS version 26. The comparison of the pre-test and post-test scores indicated significant improvement in students' reading comprehension. The findings suggested that CSR is an effective strategy that teachers may use to improve the reading comprehension skills of their students.