Chapter 7. Scrum

Ours is too great and too complex a nation for even such as I to direct and lead every action.

Attila the Hun

OVERVIEW

• Classification of Scrum.

• Workproducts, roles, and practices.

• Common mistakes, adoption and process mixtures, strengths and weaknesses.

Scrum appears simple, yet has practices that deeply influence the work experience and that capture key adaptive and agile qualities. Scrum's distinctive emphasis among the methods is its strong promotion of self-directed teams, daily team measurement, and avoidance of prescriptive process. Some key practices include:

prescriptive process

• self-directed and self-organizing team

• no external addition of work to an iteration, once chosen

• daily stand-up meeting with special questions

• usually 30-calendar day iterations

• demo to external stakeholders at end of each iteration

• each iteration, client-driven adaptive planning