Know What Is Scrum?

JamBuster's SoftALM® and SoftAgile™ are predominantly based on Scrum Methodology with some Kanban Taskboards, Lean and XP(Extreme Programming) Practices.

Importance of Scrum stems from that it not only recognized that requirements change very often, but more importantly it provided a framework to overcome the traditional approach of having a planned or predictive manner of doing things. During a project the customers can change their minds about what they want and need, and scrum encourages managing these changes in pursuit of creating a useful software.

The Scrum Guide™ - the ultimate scrum authority, defines scrum as follows:

A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value.

Scrum is a Lightweight methodology, which is simple to understand yet difficult to master!

The Scrum framework consists of Scrum Teams and their associated artifacts, roles, events, and rules, each of which have been explained below:

Scrum Artifacts: Scrum Artifacts are defined so that each Scrum member has the same understanding of the Artifact. Each Artifact used in Scrum is explained below:

Product Backlog: The Product Backlog is an ordered list of items that might be needed in the product and is a single repository of requirements & any changes to be made to the product. The Product Owner is responsible for the Product Backlog. Product Backlog is refined on a regular basis by the Product Owner and the Development team.

Adding Product backlog to Sprint BacklogSprint Backlog: The Sprint Backlog is the set of Product Backlog items selected for the current Sprint, plus a plan for delivering the product Increment. The Sprint Backlog defines all the work that will be done by the Development Team in the current Sprint and only the Development Team can make changes to the Sprint Backlog.

Increment: The Product Increment is the sum of all the Product Backlog items...