Why do the conversations about Agile / Scrum Development sound so simple yet the essence keeps eluding us?

Scrum has emerged as one of the fastest growing agile development processes, with more than 11,000 Certified Scrum Masters and numerous projects around the world. This tutorial is aimed at providing an introduction to the basic Scrum philosophies, methods, roles as well as additional topics that enhance an effective Scrum process. Attendees will gain an understanding of Scrum “how’s and why’s” as well as briefly exploring a few case studies that will reveal why it is so popular.

Scrum has been defined by Ken Schwaber as an agile process framework that when implemented correctly can provide visibility and control over product development by using a continual inspect and adapt practice. Scrum’s framework is often used to wrap other methodologies such as Extreme Programming and RUP while still generating the benefits of agile development in the context of a simple implementation. Scrum has shown repeated success in all types of product development applications, to increase productivity by using an adaptive empirical system development process.

This class describes the basic Scrum process as well as additional topics including product ownership, reporting, metrics, scaling, team-safety and changing long term habits. The attendee will leave with a summary knowledge of the process and practices involved in Scrum.