Scrum

When you hear someone say that they are now doing agile, their team is using agile, or their organization has adopted agile, there's a very strong chance that what they are actually doing is some form of Scrum.

Scrum is not the same as agile. As mentioned earlier, Agile is an ideology. It is underpinned by those values and principles set out in the Agile Manifesto. Scrum is one of several frameworks that instantiates Agile and makes the principles a reality through a group of practices. It is also, by far, the most popular Agile framework.

It was created by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Shwaber in the 1990s and was inspired by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka when they published The New New Product Development Game.14

There have been numerous books written about Scrum and, as with any good framework, it has evolved and continuously improved with learning and experience. We would strongly recommend reading the latest version of the Scrum Guide as presented by Sutherland...