In the field of virtual reconstruction of architectural heritage cooperation and management highly influence a project progress and success. This paper presents and discusses practical problems and challenges related to cross-disciplinary cooperation within professional and educational contexts. The usage of SCRUM as a procedure model from agile software development will be presented and discussed as a promising approach to deal with these challenges. Moreover, the paper sketches a layout to implement and evaluate this method in context of a project based learning setting. Design/methodology/approach – To discover challenges and problems in cooperation practice, authors performed five case studies about reconstruction projects in academic context. By using Grounded Theory as a qualitative empirical approach, several typical challenges of objective setting, cross-disciplinary communication and project management were identified. Against this background, an application and prospected additional values of SCRUM are discussed on a conceptual level. Originality/value – The article inherits a discussion of general potentials of SCRUM in context of virtual reconstruction projects. Moreover, a layout for a usage of SCRUM within an educational project setting is sketched. Practical implications – A practical course which bases on the developed layout is proposed to take place in early 2016.