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Scrum (Software Development)

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Scrum is a software engineering method for managing iterative software development, in which work is organized into short, fixed-length cycles called sprints, typically one to four weeks long, at the end of which a team delivers a working increment of the product and reviews its progress before planning the next sprint. A small, cross-functional team holds brief daily meetings to coordinate work, and defined roles, such as the product owner who prioritizes the work backlog and the scrum master who facilitates the process, structure how decisions get made. Formalized by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland in the mid-1990s, drawing on ideas from a 1986 paper on flexible product development, scrum became one of the most widely used frameworks within the agile software development movement.

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Core Principle
Scrum prescribes for teams to break work into goals to be completed within time-boxed iterations, called sprints. 1
Origin Year
1986 1
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1. Scrum (project management) (Wikipedia)
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  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(project_management), lead section
    Scrum prescribes for teams to break work into goals to be completed within time-boxed iterations, called sprints.
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(project_management), History section
    The use of the term scrum in software development came from a 1986 Harvard Business Review paper titled "The New New Product Development Game" by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka.
  • Associated With: Agile Software Development, Introduction
    Scrum is an agile management team collaboration framework commonly used in software development and other industries.
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