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| Scrum is a thin and iterative project management process, which belongs to the <a title="Agile method"
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| href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development">Agile methods</a> family, sharing the values defined in
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| the Agile manifesto and applying its fundamental principles.
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| </p>
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| <h5>
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| Summary
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| <p>
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| Here's a summary of Scrum:
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| <p class="quote">
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| Scrum leads to oftenly and regulary showing (every 2 or 4 weeks, depending on <a class="elementLink"
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| href="./../../../Scrum/guidances/termdefinitions/Sprint_494C0C24.html" guid="_kftWoIHqEduFs9jH8xc4xw">Sprint</a>
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| length) a working (partial) product. Business analysis identifies requirements and defines their priorities. Team gets
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| organized in order to determine the best way to implement most prioritized requirements. At the end of each Sprint,
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| everybody can see the actual product working and contribute to make a decision on what's next: either release it as is,
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| or continue to improve it through an additional sprint before reconsidering again.
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| </p>
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| Origin
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| Scrum is a term from rugby. The process revolves around a strong team looking forward to reaching a goal, as it is the
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| case with rugby when a pack deploys its collective strength to move forward witht the ball during a scrum.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| Scrum particulary focuses on the social and collective aspect of development. Scrum Goal is to improve quality and
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| productivity, with an empirical approach, relying on autonomous teaming.
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| </p>
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| Empirism
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| An empirical process, thus experience-based, requires a good visibility, frequent inspections and adaptation to
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| planning changes. This is applied in Scrum through the 2 regulation cycles:
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| <ul>
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| During Daily Scrums, passed day experience is taken into account to adapt the planning for remaining days in the
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| sprint.
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| </li>
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| During sprint reviews, passed sprint experience is taken into account to adapt the release planning regarding next
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| sprints.
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| Sprint tasks are not defined very precisely: no start date, no end date, no dependency. Scrum considers that it's not
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| predictable. Scrum empirism continuously relies on current project state analysis for process control and risk
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| reduction.
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| Scope
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| Scrum does not describe all the software development activities (analysis, design, coding, testing) and must be
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| considered, rather than a full process, more as a process pattern to use for project and requirement management.
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| &lt;br0/&gt; Scrum does not provide help to achieve development technical activities. It is Team's job to define by
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| itself what's the work to do.
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| </p>
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| Diffusion
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| </h5>
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| Scrum exists since the 90s and its popularity has been growing for a few years and it has been used by hundreds of
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| projects around the world. For 3 years now, a certification process has been set up. In November 2006, more than 7000
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| people had obtained ScrumMaster certification.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| &nbsp;<img height="56" alt="ScrumMaster" src="./resources/csm.jpg" width="179" />
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| For more informations on Scrum, go to<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(management)"
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| target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28management%29</a>
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