Scrum overview

Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland first co-presented Scrum at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) conference in 1995 and were contributors to the Agile Manifesto 6 years later:

"A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value."

– Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland

The framework is lightweight and very simple to understand. That is why many organizations embrace some or all the best practices. It sounds easy, but it's easier to talk about than it is to actually do it.

Scrum theory was founded or based upon empirical process control theory, or empiricism. The three pillars of the Scrum framework are transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

Transparency

Agile project management has a common theme of openness, as well as...