Why Scrum is an excellent place to start

Scrum is a lightweight framework that provides the necessary mechanisms to get your team's mindset focused on the essential aspects of Agile software delivery. If you were to compare learning how to use Agile to learning to ride a bike, then Scrum could be seen as the training wheels that get us moving forward.

That's not to say that Scrum is over-simplistic; as the saying goes, it's easy to learn but will take a lifetime to master. So while Scrum provides enough of a framework to get us started, it will also set us on the path to developing an Agile mindset.

So, Scrum is a perfect place for an Agile team to start its journey. It is by far the most popular framework amongst fledgling Agile teams. This ...

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