Introduction to Scrum

Team Collaboration and Adaptation 🔄 Scrum is about learning and adapting as a team, not following a rigid process that may not work for everyone. 🏗️ The development team is self-organizing and works together to figure out how to deliver, defined by the product owner's requirements. ⏱️ The daily scrum is a 15-minute time box to inspect and adapt, with the goal of making the development team more successful. 🕒 The goal of Scrum is to have daily meetings at the same time, same place, and same day, in a 15-minute time box. 🤝 The sprint retrospective is a chance for the scrum team to openly and honestly evaluate how they worked together and identify areas for improvement. Value Delivery and Continuous Improvement 🌟 Releasing a little bit more capability every sprint can lead to amazing progress, such as having a working homepage at the end of the first sprint. 💡 The difference between a design in a picture and a working webpage can lead to unexpected feedback and adjustments. 💬 The focus on velocity in Scrum is often misunderstood as just delivering faster, but it's more about delivering value. 🔄 The ability to continually learn and improve every two to four weeks is critical for delivering value back to stakeholders and the business. 🔄 Scrum emphasizes constant adaptation and repetition in the team's approach to delivering work within 30 days or less. Scrum Principles and Processes 📈 Scrum org offers training and certification around scrum, as well as helping individuals and organizations improve how they deliver software by evolving and adding capabilities to scrum. 🌱 Scrum emphasizes delivering value in smaller increments to meet current market requirements and avoid the pitfalls of traditional waterfall processes. 📊 The product backlog consists of all the open work that needs to be done, and it evolves over time as items are refined and checked off. 🔄 The Sprint backlog consists of the product backlog items selected for a particular sprint, owned by the development team, and refined further as needed.