What is Scrum?
16 March, 2011A first-pass set of definitions, in increasing order of cynicism:
Scrum is a methodology designed to help an organisation deliver a product every few weeks rather than every few years.
Scrum is a set of rituals intended to prevent motivated, clever people from becoming cowboy coders. It channels agile behaviour into a predictable cycle of deliverables at a given level of quality.
Scrum is a set of processes designed to be adopted by organisations who want to find out if their staff can ‘do’ agile.
Scrum is a form of project management where neither the start nor the end of the project are defined.
What definitions have I missed out?
Comments
Erik
17 March, 2011 at 23:24
Tim Allen
23 March, 2011 at 21:24
Tim Allen
23 March, 2011 at 21:28
Phil
24 March, 2011 at 11:00
Scrum is a framework for empirical process control.
Scrum is a Project Management method which forces customers to think about what is really most important to them. It forces the customer to realise that not everything can be a #1 priority…
Sorry that probably sounds rather bitter and cynical. In my experience the implementation of scrum in an organisation tends to be about a better way of the project manager managing his boss and the customer than really changing the way a project is managed.
Not unfair at all – it fits perfectly into my list 🙂