CHAPTER 4

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Introduction to Scrum and Agile Concepts

Chapter 3 looked at different development processes and frameworks. Our experience is that there has been a great deal of improvement in projects over the last few years. To be more specific, we’ve seen the agile movement make an impact on how projects deliver business value.

The focus of this book, when it comes to processes and frameworks, is on agile methods like Scrum and XP. The reason is simply that agile fits nicely with the concept of ALM, as you saw in Chapter 2.

This chapter looks at how you can use Scrum as an agile project-management model to deliver software. We cover the Scrum process ...

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