Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process

Chapter 2. Scrum Framework

This chapter provides an overview of the Scrum framework with a primary focus on its practices, including roles, activities, and artifacts. Subsequent chapters will provide a deeper treatment of each of these practices, including an in-depth look at the principles that underlie the practices.

Overview

Scrum is not a standardized process where you methodically follow a series of sequential steps that are guaranteed to produce, on time and on budget, a high-quality product that delights customers. Instead, Scrum is a framework for organizing and managing work. The Scrum framework is based on a set of values, principles, and practices that provide the foundation to which your organization will add its unique implementation ...