SCRUM for Starters April 28, 2008
Posted by Meg Sewell in Inovis Solutions.Tags: Agile Process, SCRUM
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There’s a buzzword floating around that you may have overheard: SCRUM. While we have featured blog posts in the past about the importance of Automation with SCRUM and how user stories are important to the Agile process, we really haven’t published a piece introducing SCRUM. Here’s a quick intro.
Also known as the Agile Process, SCRUM is a software development process that involves members of Quality Assurance, Development, Product Management, and various other employees.
What exactly is the Agile Process? The term ‘SCRUM’ originates from a rugby term for eight individual ruby players that act together rather than individually to get the ball down the field. They move in calculated, incremental steps rather than rushing to the goal.
In the world of software development, SCRUM is an incremental process that is composed of ‘sprints’ or development cycles that last two weeks. At the end of each sprint, a potentially shippable set of functionality is produced. While new features are added on in each cycle, the idea is to have a functional core product at the end of each sprint. SCRUM is not just a process, it’s a mind set. SCRUM builds team work, encourages creativity, and defines those who are pigs and those who are chicks. For more information or to better wrap your head around this subject, check out this Wikipedia article.
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Hi, the sprint recommended length is actually 30 days. Although my opinion is that its best to experiment with the length, and then once you have a good sprint length suitable for your team/organisation to stick to it.
SCRUM has been around since the 90’s so its less a buzz word than it was!