Chapter 19

Ten Key Benefits of Scrum

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Ensuring products are valuable

Bullet Making reporting easy

Bullet Improving results

Bullet Reducing risk

This chapter lists ten important benefits provided by scrum to organizations, teams, products, and individuals.

Remember To take advantage of scrum benefits, you need to trust in empiricism, learn more about the scrum framework by using it, and continually inspect and adapt your scrum implementation.

Higher Customer Satisfaction

Scrum teams are committed to iteratively and incrementally delivering products that lead to higher customer satisfaction. Scrum teams have happier customers because they

  • Collaborate with customers to collect product feedback throughout the process so customers get what they really need.
  • Enable a product owner who is an expert on product requirements and customer needs or knows where to get that information. (Check out Chapter 2 for more information about the product owner’s accountability.)
  • Keep the product backlog updated and ...

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