Scrum
Summary
Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.
Description
In a nutshell, Scrum requires a Scrum Master to foster an environment where:
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A Product Owner orders the work for a complex problem into a Product Backlog.
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The Scrum Team turns a selection of the work into an Increment of value during a Sprint.
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The Scrum Team and its stakeholders inspect the results and adjust for the next Sprint.
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Repeat
Scrum is simple. Try it as is and determine if its philosophy, theory, and structure help to achieve goals and create value. The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, only defining the parts required to implement Scrum theory. Scrum is built upon by the collective intelligence of the people using it. Rather than provide people with detailed instructions, the rules of Scrum guide their relationships and interactions.
Various processes, techniques and methods can be employed within the framework. Scrum wraps around existing practices or renders them unnecessary. Scrum makes visible the relative efficacy of current management, environment, and work techniques, so that improvements can be made.
Scrum is free and offered in this Guide. The Scrum framework, as outlined herein, is immutable. While implementing only parts of Scrum is possible, the result is not Scrum. Scrum exists only in its entirety and functions well as a container for other techniques, methodologies, and practices.
References
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People
Scrum Guide History
Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland first co-presented Scrum at the OOPSLA Conference in 1995. It essentially documented the learning that Ken and Jeff gained over the previous few years and made public the first formal definition of Scrum.
The Scrum Guide documents Scrum as developed, evolved, and sustained for 30-plus years by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber. Other sources provide patterns, processes, and insights that complement the Scrum framework. These may increase productivity, value, creativity, and satisfaction with the results.
The complete history of Scrum is described elsewhere. To honor the first places where it was tried and proven, we recognize Individual Inc., Newspage, Fidelity Investments, and IDX (now GE Medical).
Copyright
© 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland
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Contains
- Scrum Theory
- Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Empiricism asserts that knowledge comes from experience and making de…
- Accountabilities
- This section defines the Accountabilities defined in Scrum.
- Events
- The Sprint is a container for all other events. Each event in Scrum is a formal opportunity to inspect and adapt Scrum A…
- Artifacts
- Scrum’s artifacts represent work or value. They are designed to maximize transparency of key information. Thus, everyon…