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Scrum is the leading agile development methodology.
1. A product owner creates a prioritized wish list called a product backlog.
2. During sprint planning, the team pulls a small chunk from the top of that wish list, a sprint backlog, and decides how to implement those pieces.
3. The team has a certain amount of time — a sprint (usually two to four weeks) — to complete its work, but it meets each day to assess its progress (daily Scrum).
4. Along the way, the ScrumMaster keeps the team focused on its goal.
5. At the end of the sprint, the work should be potentially shippable: ready to hand to a customer, put on a store shelf, or show to a stakeholder.
6. The sprint ends with a sprint review and retrospective.
7. As the next sprint begins, the team chooses another chunk of the product backlog and begins working again.
Beyond the sprint
The cycle repeats until enough items in the product backlog have been completed, the budget is depleted, or a deadline arrives. Which of these milestones marks the end of the work is entirely specific to the project. No matter which impetus stops work, Scrum ensures that the most valuable work has been completed when the project ends.
SCRUM, one of the "Agile Methods", is a loose set of guidelines that govern the development process of a product, from its design stages to its completion. It aims to cure some common failures of the typical development process, such as:
Chaos due to changing requirements .
Unrealistic estimates of time, cost, and quality of the product .
Developers are forced to lie about how the project is progressing .
Cheers!
Scrum is an iterative and incremental Agile Software Development.
