Scrum
A lightweight, iterative framework for delivering value through cross-functional teams.
Overview
Scrum emphasises transparency, inspection and adaptation. Under its framework, teams work in short increments called sprints, maintain a prioritized backlog, and commit to delivering a meaningful increment at the end of each sprint. The roles — Product Owner, Scrum Master and Development Team — collaborate closely to deliver, inspect and adapt.
Faster Value Delivery
Short sprints help teams deliver usable increments frequently, allowing rapid feedback and course-correction.
Team Empowerment
Cross-functional teams are self-organising, enabling creativity and ownership over how work gets done.
Continuous Improvement
Retrospectives and reviews create built-in opportunities for reflection and improvement each sprint.
Core Elements
- Roles: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team
- Artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment
- Events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
Getting Started with Scrum
Ready to adopt Scrum? Here’s a simple first sprint roadmap:
- Select a Product Owner and Scrum Master, and form a stable Development Team.
- Create an initial Product Backlog with the highest priority features.
- Hold a Sprint Planning session: choose sprint length (commonly 2 weeks), define sprint goal.
- During each day of the sprint, the Development Team meets at the Daily Scrum to synchronise and adapt.
- At sprint end, hold a Sprint Review (inspect increment) and Sprint Retrospective (adapt process) before planning the next sprint.