What is Scrum?
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Introduction
Scrum was developed by Sutherland and Schwaber in the early 1990s. It’s is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organisations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.
The Scrum framework is purposefully incomplete, only defining the parts required to implement empiricism. It’s not designed to be modified or customised, but to be built on top of to help adapt it to your team’s context, their work, and their goals.
Various processes, techniques and methods can be employed within the framework. Scrum makes visible the relative efficacy of current management, environment, and work techniques, so that improvements can be made.
The Five Scrum Events
Scrum combines four formal events for inspection and adaptation within a containing event, the Sprint. These events work because they implement the empirical Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection, and adaptation.
Sprint Planning
Sprint Planning initiates the Sprint by laying out the work to be performed for the Sprint. This resulting plan is created by the collaborative work of the entire Scrum Team.
Daily Scrum
The purpose of the Daily Scrum is to inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt the Sprint Backlog as necessary, adjusting the upcoming planned work.
Sprint Review
The purpose of the Sprint Review is to inspect the outcome of the Sprint, and the current environment, collaboratively with stakeholders and determine future adaptations.
Retrospective
The purpose of the Sprint Review is to inspect the outcome of the Sprint, and the current environment, collaboratively with stakeholders and determine future adaptations.
The Sprint
The Sprint is a container for all other events and is used to deliver value. They are fixed length events of one month or less to create consistency. A new Sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the previous Sprint.
