Scrum

(upbeat music) - Agile is a broad umbrella of many methodologies that follow the same principles, Scrum is one of them. The focus of Scrum is to maximize the efficiency of the team. Since scope is the point of flexibility for Agile projects, Scrum's focus is how to deliver the most possible value within the constrained time and budget. - There's a saying in the Scrum community, Scrum is simple, but hard to apply. There are very few rules, yet their application is as complex as the problems it is trying to solve. For this reason, the role of the Scrum master is meant to be a coach who is continuously learning the framework and how it's applied. - The creators of large scale Scrum are to quick to point out that LeSS is Scrum. So what does this mean? Almost all the enterprise Agile frameworks include Scrum. It makes sense because Scrum is the most widely used of all the Agile frameworks. What they're really saying here is that Scrum is enough to scale Agile. Scrum is a very simple and lightweight framework. It only has three roles, five events, and even a fewer number of outputs, or what they call Artifacts. - Scrum wants you to fail. In fact, it's known for the slogan, Fail Fast. Traditionally, project managers and developers who had worked for months or years before seeing the results, most of the time, around 80% in fact, the software and projects failed. Failure is okay as long as you're learning from it. But if you have to wait too long, you're not going to learn nearly as much from it. Scrum takes the Agile manifesto and its key principles and boils them down to a very simple framework that encourages small-scale focus and rapid learning cycles. That's what fail fast really means, learn fast. Scrum is simple to execute but really hard to master. So be sure you're celebrating successes when you have them. If you only celebrate at the end, you could lose a lot of momentum. Recognition shifts the focus off the team's obstacles and on to success. Every Scrum team faces challenges and problems. Every time you celebrate overcoming one, you're building the team's confidence that they can accomplish anything.