Even More About SCRUM – What It Means

First note that SCRUM should really be written Scrum… more on that a bit later.

Scrum Involves:

    Initial appointment of a project manager called the "scrum master."
    Definition and prioritization of tasks to be done.
    Planning sessions for each task.
    Daily meetings among teams.
    Identification and evaluation of potential project risks and process pitfalls.
    Execution of projects in brief, high-intensity, frequent work sessions.
    Reviews of progress and evaluations of completed projects.
    Openness to constructive criticism and ideas for improvement.

The scrum concept was introduced by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in a 1986 article in The Harvard Business Review, "The New New Product Development Game" The original context was manufacturing. Jeff Sutherland, John Scumniotales and Jeff McKenna are credited with adopting, implementing and documenting the model for software development at Easel Corporation in 1993. In 1995, Ken Schwaber presented an influential white paper at OOPSLA, "SCRUM Development Process."

What The Acronym SCRUM Stands For and Where It Comes From

Scrum is a Rugby Term

This is one of the most common questions asked about Scrum. The truth is, however, that "Scrum" doesn't stand for anything, it is not an acronym. Instead, are you familiar with Rugby at all? If not, you won't recognize the term. "Scrum" refers to a move in Rugby in which a team packs together and they all act together to get the ball from one end of the field to another end of the field. In fact, if you are using the word "Scrum" properly, only the first letter of the word should be capitalized, the rest is in lower case.

How Did Scrum Come Into Existence?

Scrum was conceived by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka in 1986 with the hopes that they would create a new approach to project management that looked at the project management process as a whole and not as just a group of individual tasks, events or pieces. 

Scrum was then later picked up by other project managers in the early 1990s, including Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland who were the first to write about the methodology and help standardize the practices.

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