Lean from the Trenches

Scrum in a Nutshell

Scrum is a software development approach that Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber developed during the early 1990s. It is rooted in empirical process control and complex adaptive systems theory and was inspired by a Harvard Business Review article called “New New Product Development Game” from 1986.^[11]

The core concepts of Scrum are as follows.

Ordered Product Backlog

Split your work into a list of small, concrete deliverables—the product backlog. The product owner defines a product vision and orders the backlog by business value and other factors such as risk and dependencies.

Cross-functional Teams

Split your organization ...