Chapter 1
Professional Scrum
Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams, and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems. Software is a complex problem. Therefore, Scrum is ideal for managing the development of software in order to find solutions in an adaptive way. Software development doesn’t generate the same output every time, given a certain input. Scrum embraces this fact, and because of its empirical nature, it promotes the use of experimentation in order to inspect and adapt.
Scrum is not a methodology or a process. It is only a framework. In other words, if you take Scrum and add your own complementary practices, such as acceptance test-driven development, what you will end up with is ...
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